27th Jul 2011, 12:33
"I personally do not spend my car-buying dollars on foreign-made products."
Then you should not buy the following made in Canada cars:
Chrysler: Town & Country, Caravan, 300 series, Charger, Challenger.
Ford: Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, Edge, Fiesta, MKX, Flex, Escape.
GM: Camaro, Impala, Allure, Lacrosse, Equinox, Torrent.
And don't buy these cars as they are made in Mexico:
GM: Sunfire/Cavalier.
Ford: Fusion, Milan.
And don't buy the Buick Regal, it's made in Germany.
And don't even dream of owning a Porsche or Ferrari or Lamborghini either, they are equally foreign.
And don't buy that foreign oil that is refined to produce gasoline for your car either.
16th Jun 2011, 02:23
You have misunderstood what Initial Quality Survey (IQS) is all about. That is mix between subjective and objective factors, including questions like "do you feel that your current car is good value?".
It's the VDS that's most objective and that best measures the quality of the cars. But even VDS has a lot of flaws, including that it doesn't measure the severity of the problem. A problem is a problem; a blown transmission is measured the same way as your in car CD player not working, or you having a rattle in one of the doors.
The best statistics is the one that measures the actual money spent on repairs, because that statistics takes into account the severity of the problems.