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January 26th, 2007 11:35 PM #11
Last edited by niky; January 26th, 2007 at 11:39 PM.
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January 28th, 2007 02:57 AM #14
JD Power and Consumer Reports offer more reliable quality test results.
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January 28th, 2007 03:59 AM #15
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January 28th, 2007 05:25 AM #16di ba ang ford lynx satin a.k.a. mazda protege din to..?di kaya itong model ang kasali sa survey..? pagnagkataon i made the right choice! hehe..
ford lynx forever! subok na matibay! subok na matatag!
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January 28th, 2007 01:20 PM #18
Consumer Reports is a little biased... since most of the people they survey are the same people that buy Consumer Reports. One observer pointed out that Consumer Reports' survey is fundamentally flawed, since it relies on the user's opinion of what a problem is.
I find their articles on health and wine pretty good, though, and their on-hands assessments are generally very good. It's their famous reliability ratings that may be flawed.
J.D. Power's instrument is also subject to user-bias since it's also a survey instrument. But at least their survey is a true random selection, unlike Consumer Reports, whose survey results come from forms clipped and mailed in from their own magazine. I.E.: if your company buys enough CRs, you can influence the results.
There's also the question, in both surveys, as what counts as a problem. Search J.D. Powers and cupholders... very funny... it's an actual result of a J.D. Powers survey, where Mini owners rate "small cupholders" and "harsh ride" as a problem.
One note about Warranty Direct, I made a mistake about asking how many cars can stay in warranty that long... Warranty Direct provides third-party extended warranty. Oops.
The Warranty Direct survey only covers mechanical problems that were approved as warranty issues, which discludes problems which likely occured due to user-error, wear-and-tear or preference in ride comfort or fuel economy. And since it's a US and UK survey, the manufacturers can't hide behind ridiculous claims like they do here (Kaya po nasira ang alternator mo, nag-install ka ng bagong radio head-unit... loko! ).
But you never know, they may be falling into the same trap JD Powers and Consumer Reports... they can only cover cars Warrantied through their third-party service... which is mostly bought by people who actually care about their cars, and probably drive very carefully.
But still, rating high here means, at the very least, that there's a statistical possibility that Mazda really is very good.
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