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Originally Posted by HitterD
I just wanted to fuel the fire a little bit here. For those not Familiar with JD Power and Associates, they publish vehicle dependability studies annually.
For those of you in this thread defending Toyota, they have scored very well consistenly over the years, as has Buick, however.
If you look at this years results (based mostly on the 2006 year for vehicles as they need 2-3 years to guage the dependability), you will notice a pretty even mix of domestic vs imports in both the top and botton half of the dependability study.
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BARF J.D. Power!
I don't trust J.D. Power and Associates any more than any PR firm. It's a for-profit global marketing company. I get a bad taste in my mouth when you see car commercials and it seems odd that only the domestic makers always seem to be flaunting their J.D. Power Awards (cheesy little glass trophies) on all the Ford, GM, Chrysler commercials. It reeks of used car salesman waving all the trophies he's won selling cars.
Go with Consumer Reports. They are non-profit and have years and years of testing and reliability studies. True, their system could be more clear or have more details but they actually buy their own cars from dealers as regular customers and they do their own car surveys of their own to get user reliability feedback on their cars over the years. True Delta is also good.
J.D. Power is crap.