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81,000 Accords recalled for air bag sensor
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Honda got PWNED by Toyota for sales this year. Accord sales were down, Civic sales were down... and I thought the Civic looked decent this time around.
it must have been a very specific model for it to only effect 81,000 cars over two years. they sell that many in a couple months.
by the best i've been able to estimate from news coverage, honda averaged over $1.5 billion dollars in profit for every quarter of 2006, despite a bunch of pension pay-offs. something tells me they aren't too worried.
Its just when some taco eating fat american slams their car door too hard when the car is running that the bags deploy.
Same thing was recalled in my Scion tC
Same thing was recalled in my Scion tC
You didn't hear? Japanese FTW! They are like a million times better than anything else on the road!!111!!! They never have problems or recalls.
Oh wait.
Engine for Engine which is better? American or Japanese? Let's not even touch who's who on styling
Well, Engine for Engine, I'd consider them both to be equal. Usually the engines are the least of peoples worries. It's once you get into the drivetrain and so on that the problems start showing up.
I refuse to answer. I don't have empirical evidence to back up my claims. Neither do you. Although I bet, if a research company took 1000 each of Ford Fusions, Honda Accords, and Toyota Camrys, and recorded every single thing that went wrong, (for say, 100,000 miles) I bet that you'd see that the cars are probably darn near equal. The reason why the company would have to do it is because I'm not relying on peoples stupidity to rate how reliable a car is. (IE Consumer Reports)
Don't get me wrong, I believe that Japanese cars were much more reliable than american cars in the 80's and 90's, but now, in the 00's I have a hard time believing that.
Why then do consumer reports list a bunch of Japanese cars?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/10/26/cr_...able/index.html?section=cnn_topstories
Let's take the average american into account. Ignorant? Yes, Stupid? Probably, Clueless about their car? Yes.
Now, let's form all those people's experiences with cars into one magazine. What does that make the magazine?
Doesn't consumer reports rate cars based on how many problems have been reported by consumers, and then use that data to predict reliability? You call people that look at empirical evidence (science) stupid, and then pull something out of thin air? Wtf?
So basically your argument is that because the masses are retarded, the reports are retarded. And yet they consistently favor Toyota and Honda. Is this your concession speech?
Brainonska511
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For the most part yes. Although, I'd prefer you not use retarted. I have yet to see anyone provide any thing that is not based from consumers.
Don't get me wrong, I'd buy American if they were as reliable. But I'd rather drive used Hondas, like my 1992 Accord, and not have to waste all my income on a car.
If you read one of my previous posts, I said that I believed that Japanese cars were much more reliable than their american counterparts in the 80's and 90's. But now, I do not.
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