29th Aug 2010, 10:18
Do we in America really think that the auto industry isn't buying their high ratings to look good while their companies are in the toilet?? How do you go from the CEO of GM being asked to resign, by the president no less, to top ranked cars in less than a year. Did they have the time or money to completely redesign their entire fleet in that time? How about the massive retooling of their factories, which they would have had to do in order to change their cars that much. Hmmmm, most of their cars look the same to me, and are probably still made the same.
Here we are in honest and upfront America where no business has ever lied about anything... yeah, there was just a tough of sarcasm there... The government is involved here, so you can bet they will do what it takes to get more of your money. What better, or more convenient way, than to make things appear better than they are. This is business people... don't fall for the hype of high ratings as your only measure of a car lines quality. If you have had a number of imports and domestics like I have, then you can make intelligent assumptions of quality. There is a reason I still prefer imports, and it has nothing to do with false ratings!!
28th Aug 2010, 10:45
Lots of luck buying your cars based on surveys! I'll go with actual real life experience thanks. GM is junk as proven many times over by my sitting bored in waiting rooms at dealers getting them fixed. My Ford also ended up on a flatbed going to the dealer at 8K miles. Huh, never happened on any import. In fact I have never been to the dealer ONCE with any import I have owned in the past 25 years other than one Nissan. Domestics?? Oh yeah, the dealer service manager knows your name when you have a domestic. I was on a first name basis with the Chevy service manager, because my Trailblazer was in every other week for something or other.
So go for it. Buy your "highly rated" domestics. High ratings apparently mean "high cost of repairs" as far as domestics go.
Good luck to you.