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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / November 2005Mechanical Dependability
It just amazes me that you can buy a car for $15,000 like the Corolla and it will have a better long-term "JD Power" mechanical dependability rating after 5 years than a car that costs a whole lot more like a Mercedes, Cadillac, or Jaguar. Am I interpreting the JD Power surveys wrongly? For example, the '97 Corolla gets 4 stars in the JD Power survey for mechanical dependability compared to just 3 stars for a '97 S-Class Mercedes. toyotas are darn good cars!the corolla is one of their best.you gotta drive a tercel stick!it's a real poor man's sports car! >It just amazes me that you can buy a car for >$15,000 like the Corolla and it will have a better >long-term "JD Power" mechanical dependability rating >after 5 years than a car that costs a whole lot more >like a Mercedes, Cadillac, or Jaguar. Am I interpreting >the JD Power surveys wrongly? Nope > For example, the '97 Corolla gets 4 stars in the >JD Power survey for mechanical dependability compared >to just 3 stars for a '97 S-Class Mercedes. I have a '93 Eldo, acquired in 1997, which is a money pit. Great engineering concepts, poorly executed. If I couldn't do the work myself I couldn't afford to keep it. All kinds of interesting and basically unnecessary features that fail one after another. My wife has a '93 Camry purchased new. Recently the non-maintenance repair parts total hit about $100.00 even. |
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