David Champion
David Champion
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Domestic vehicles have made substantial advances, Ford is doing better than GM and Chrysler, but new model launches are not as good. We are seeing many more electronic features, and that's the biggest trouble area readers tell us about.
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It's an unrealistic sales and marketing tool that they are actually using. They are saying you're going to get 35 miles per gallon and you're really only going to get 21.
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The automobile has probably got the worst environment for electronics. They're very dry, very dusty; or very hot and humid; or very cold and wet.
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Once GM gets to average reliability on our scores, they seem to take the emphasis off continual improvement. We see other manufacturers that are mortified by an average score. It's a different mind-set.
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The E.P.A. test was developed in the 1970's and is not reflective of the way cars are driven today.
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The electrical and electronic features tend to be problematic, so they could be causing a leveling off of reliability even though the rest of the car is getting more reliable.
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All the big electronics companies are based in Japan. So when you start putting a lot of electronics and electrical systems in, I think they probably have the best infrastructure to make the sub-assemblies.
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And as we back up, it actually shows you where you're going to go.
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The Japanese seem to have great attention to detail. Everything is well thought out. Their cars are extremely reliable, but also, really quite simple in in terms of the engineering that's gone into them.
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The Japanese manufacturers have great attention to detail, they make cars people want to buy. Their cars have great reliability.
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I think it's desperately time for a change.
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I think they've lost their competitive edge in terms of reliability. In the past we would put them maybe not quite as good as Toyota and Honda, but pretty close.
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I think they've lost their competitive edge in terms of reliability.
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It's a bit of a wakeup call for Nissan. I'm sure they are working extremely hard to improve these vehicles. They really need to put all those problems to bed.