Re: Consumer Re****ts reliability survey for Cars

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Built_Well  <Built_Well_Toyota@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Damn, everytime I think of expanding my horizons beyond
>> Toyota, cold, hard survey data and results bring me back,
>> keeping me loyal to Toyota.
> 
> Not that Toyota products are bad in any way, but this survey is pretty
> much useless because it considers all reliability issues to be the same.


Exactly. And if Toyota is so great, how come we STILL see more 87 Buicks 
on the road than 87 Toyotas? They didn't sell more that many more Buicks 
at that time, they just lasted longer in the end, even if they were less 
"reliable" (according to CR) up front.

Same in reverse for Mercedes. Consumer Retards considers a broken radio 
to be the same level of "unreliability" as a hole in the side of the 
cylinder block where a connecting rod departed.... USELESS info. EVERY 
single person I know who owns a Mercedes would gladly own another. 
They're not the heaps CR makes them out to be.