http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/ Autoblog Comments for Ford touting quality equal to that of Toyota and Honda http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
Back on topic, I think if more people give Ford a chance they will be pleasantly suprised. ]]>Apr 7th 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Just don't take the car to the dealer. There has to be a shop in your town that specializes in german cars that will charge half the dealerships labor rate.
I don't know about the M but with my 330Ci I can order parts online and fix most things in my garage too. Even when I had my resevoir replaced I ordered the parts myself and brought them to the shop that did the repairs. I only paid labor. These cars only have high repair costs for lazy people. ]]>Apr 7th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
And people with jobs and families and otherwise don't have the time/patience to sit around waiting for the mail-order parts to arrive so they can drive it to a repair shop during the late of night when it's less of an issue should the brakes/engine/suspension let go.

It's nice that you got a BMW that only has a few manageable things falling off of it... but don't act like everyone has the spare time and luck that you do.]]>Apr 7th 2008 8:15PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
Ya know. Any Dell computer I had does that. And everytime my Norton (NIS) expires my computer turns to garbage!]]>Apr 15th 2008 7:46PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 6:22PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 6:10PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
Why hasn't there been a more comprehensive study of long-term quality? Its nice that a new car has few problems, but isnt anyone more interested what happens at bigger intervals? ]]>Apr 7th 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
So in short, overall reliability=not quite as good as Toyota, but pretty close.]]>Apr 7th 2008 8:47PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
And Consumer Reports is called biased.]]>Apr 7th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 10:31PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
I can tell you from my family's personal experiences that I don't believe this report (I do acknowledge I am no expert).
It would be fun to run a equivalent Honda Toyota and Ford vehicles simultaneously to see which lasts longest! ]]>Apr 7th 2008 6:13PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 7:01PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 7th 2008 7:09PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/Apr 9th 2008 10:54AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the perceived quality gap problem Ford has. I don't deny that Ford deserves some resistance today from the crap they put out yesteryear, but when you have airheads acting like they speak with any sense of authority based on knee-jerk emotional reactions, you get to view human stupidity at it's finest.

Carbon, sweetie, you don't have to give Ford another dime for how they like so completely wronged you and generations of your whole entire family and stuff. Just go away - we're all stocked up in the ignoramus department around here.]]>Apr 9th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/07/ford-touting-quality-equal-to-that-of-toyota-and-honda/
After realizing our brother paid less for a Veracruz the interior and equipment levels completely blows ours away, we wish we had looked at Hyundai.

Oh well. ]]>Apr 7th 2008 6:13PM