[Healeys] FW: FWIW

[Oudesluys]

Eric,
Not realy.
In the past at least 30 years or so there were hardly any other than 
Japanese cars in the top 25 reliability lists. In the past 10 years the 
Koreans are quickly rising and some German cars are improving and appear 
in the top 10 in the last couple of years.
The worst have been models from Land/Range Rover, Peugeot/CitroC+n 
(basically the same cars), Fiat/Lancia/Alfa (idem) and some US cars, 
although the results of these are a bit unreliable as there are very few 
around in EU.
Name me one large British car manufacturer, I for sure do not know any. 
Many, if not all, of the small players are foreign owned.
That the Japs have done so well is because of their quality control 
systems which are second to none. Perhaps Japanese cars built in the USA 
(e.g. Infinity, some Subaru's etc.) may have a worse record.
The design of some EU cars may be better, but reliability?, no way.
Cheers,
Kees Oudesluijs


Op 14-8-2012 8:36, lists schreef:
> Kees, you're joking, right?
>
> Eric
>
> Peculiar comment.
> What British car industry, apart from some assembling plants and niche
> manufacturers, are they talking about?
> The problem in Europe with French (Renault, Peugeot/CitroC+n) and Italian
> (Fiat/Alfa Romeo/Lancia/Ferrari, Lamborgini etc.) car makes is quality.
> Nearly the same goes for some German cars (Ford, BMW, Opel  and to a
> lesser extend Volkswagen/Audi/Seat, Spanish VW clone, /Skoda, Tsjech VW
> clone, Mercedes). The same goes for USA cars. This was also the real
> reason of the downfall of British industry.
> They simply still cannot match the Japanese (Toyota, Subaru, Nissan,
> Mazda, Daihatsu etc.) and recently the Koreans (Hyundai, Kia, Chevrolet
> etc.) on quality.
> On the EU continent we even try to avoid UK made Nissans and prefer the
> identical but better built Asian import.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
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