U.S. automotive brands outpace rivals in new J.D. Power survey

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

POSTED: 1:55 P.M. JULY 15, 2010
U.S. automotive brands outpace rivals in new J.D. Power survey
BY GREG GARDNER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER


For the first time since 1997, domestic cars, on average, did better than their Asian and European competitors in J.D. Power and Associates survey measuring consumers’ reaction after owning the vehicle for 90 days.

Called the Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout Study, this survey asked more than 76,000 consumers to assess their vehicles on about 80 criteria. Powers’ researchers collected responses between February and May of this year. The scores are added and ranked along a 1,000-point scale. It is different from the company’s Initial Quality Survey which measures problems owners say they experienced in the three months after buying or leasing a vehicle.

Ford, which improved from 785 to 794, and Chevrolet, which climbed from 764 to 789, were major factors in bringing the Detroit brands’ collective average from 776 to 787. Import brands’ average fell from 781 to 774, reflecting Toyota’s fall to 745 -- second lowest of 33 brands -- from 756, and Honda’s slide to 766 from 778 last year.

For Chrysler, the results were mixed. Its Ram truck brand, which was measured separated for the first time, scored 780, slightly higher than the industry average of 778. But Jeep posted the lowest score at 727 and Chrysler and Dodge were below the industry average.

Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20100715/BUSINESS01/100715036/1318/U.S.-automotive-brands-outpace-rivals-in-new-J.D.-Power-survey

[jody]

1. Now that US mfgs have dumped their debt on taxpayers they will again produce top quality cars.

IMO that was their strategy all along, dump their debt on taxpayers and move plants to states with lower labor costs.

Of course many will criticize that as pure :tinfoilhat: and they are probably right.

[Omaha Steve]

4. Can't include Ford in that

Let us not forget W didn't want car companies to go bankrupt on his watch, so he sent bailout $! Plants closed but didn't relocate to go non union. I'm not happy about the Mexico plants, but then companies like Volkswagen build there too.

DaimlerChrysler AG, 1998–2007. Chrysler went under while a German company that owned it and ran it into the ground. They got 50 cents on the $ when they sold it. Remember they killed the highly successful Pt Cruiser.

GM. Yep many mistakes. Marta and I were mad when they stopped making the full size Caprice. We bought a 1999 Dodge Intrepid in 2001. Kept it till we traded it in for Marta's 09 Equinox last year. Anyway GM has turned it around. Things are getting better every day for them.

K&R for the story.

[jody]

5. Agree. Most people don't know the story of Henry Ford's experience when he first need capital to

expand.

Financiers back East offered him all the cash he needed with one little string attached, they would control his company.

Henry went back to Dearborn and grew the company without debt for decades.

[boomerbust]

2. DETROIT IS BACK

FUCK TOYOTA AND HUNDAI AND HONDA

[madokie]

3. I second that

[SpartanDem]

6. K&R