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JZeke @ Apr 7th 2008 6:12PM
Funny how important perceived quality is to the great unwashed. Whats kind of worrisome here is this data is for the first 3 months of ownership only -- basically the data that JD power initial quality surveys are based on.
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?
The Luigiian @ Apr 7th 2008 8:47PM
There have been, it's called Consumer Reports. Ford Fusion is currently rated above-average, Mustang average, Focus average, Edge above-average, Ranger average. Ironically, its F-150 and Explorer are two of its least reliable, with both getting half-black dots (recall that the Toyota Tundra is the one that recently got the half-black dot with its 4wd truck.) Escape is also probably going to get above-average. Most of the CR snapshots on msn.com state the reliability at the end of the review.
So in short, overall reliability=not quite as good as Toyota, but pretty close.
Matt @ Apr 7th 2008 11:06PM
"There have been, it's called Consumer Reports"
And Consumer Reports is called biased.