29th Mar 2010, 17:50
Honda did have to recall 410,000 vehicles due to brake issues. However, you will notice it only took three reported accounts for them to respond. It took GM quite a while to respond to their 1.7 million vehicle recall on the Cobalt due to powersteering failures, as you can see from the complaints on this site dating back a few years. At least Honda is willing to admit their mistake and fix it.
Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I myself notice a big quality difference in American built Honda's and real Honda's (that is, the ones built in Japan). No issues with my Japanese built CR-V, but I was surprised by the issues I found in my American built Civic.
29th Mar 2010, 17:43
And of course blatantly overlook the huge GM recall for cars that completely lose powersteering. Not to mention the review on this very site of someone who has had a transmission failure in their 2010 Ford Fusion. Comments have started gathering there about other failures of the same year vehicle. Would hate to see a trend start there.