Chrysler's New Plan - Be Like Benz, Match Toyota's Quality By 2007

[prontospyder]

Chrysler Shifts Gears

 

[geno]

If any one of the big three can do it, it's Chrysler.

 

[boyRacer]

lol... that shouldve been their plan in the first place.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: geno
If any one of the big three can do it, it's Chrysler.

LOL, GM will make it first.

Car buyers like Bill Barnes won?t wait that long. Chrysler lost him when the transmission blew on his Dodge Caravan at 39,000 miles. ?I just don?t have confidence in Chrysler anymore,? says the Florida salesman, who just bought a $29,000 Toyota Sienna minivan. Zetsche may want to repair relations with his minivan owners before he courts the uptown crowd. Otherwise, overcoming history may be the least of Chrysler?s problems. It might be history.

Buahaha. Chrysler - 0, Toyota - 1

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: geno
If any one of the big three can do it, it's Chrysler.

LOL, GM will make it first.

Kia and Hyundai will make it there before either Chrysler, GM or Ford!

 

[yruffostsif]

if chrysler would stop making cars and start making...say...spatula's...they've got a chance.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: geno
If any one of the big three can do it, it's Chrysler.

LOL, GM will make it first.

Kia and Hyundai will make it there before either Chrysler, GM or Ford!

No, not likely.

Initial Quality
Dependability Study

 

[geno]

LOL, GM will make it first.

With Cadillac, yes. Any of GM's other cars are a joke.

 

[LAUST]

So they are gonna dump their unions?

 

[tokamak]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Initial Quality
Dependability Study

where's Mazda?

 

[SuperTool]

Are we talking about just the Chrysler brand going away, or does that include Jeep and Dodge?
Clearly years of pushing crappy cars on American consumers are coming back to haunt the big three.

 

[LAUST]

Originally posted by: tokamak

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Initial Quality
Dependability Study

where's Mazda?

FordZda

edit: GM is over industry average already according to JD it looks like... but I don't really care for JD myself.. or any of them for that matter.. as far as mine, well over 60K towing, hauling, offroad and racing miles on mine with no probs

 

[geno]

GM is over industry average already according to JD it looks like

Between their trucks, their plethora of dependable SUVs, and not to mention Caddy all help to bring their average up. GM, as a whole, makes great stuff, it's their cars that suck goat taint (save Cadillac)

 

[LAUST]

I definitely agree with that.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: tokamak

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Initial Quality
Dependability Study

where's Mazda?

Mazda is lumped into Ford's conglomerate because they own about a third of the company.

Entire Initial Quality press release
Entire Dependability Study press release

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: boyRacer
lol... that shouldve been their plan in the first place.

:werd: They should have realized they needed to UN-Tarnish the Chrysler brand first and THEN bring it into the higher market.

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: LAUST
So they are gonna dump their unions?

Its not the unions....its the cheap a$$ people who chose to keep going to the low quality parts bins or not working with the OEM's directly enough to get the "kinks" worked out.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: geno
If any one of the big three can do it, it's Chrysler.

LOL, GM will make it first.

Kia and Hyundai will make it there before either Chrysler, GM or Ford!

No, not likely.

Initial Quality
Dependability Study

That's quite interesting.

Damn. I had no idea Kia was so bad.. worse than Daewoo??

That's pretty bad. :Q

 

[conjur]

Hmm...and I saw a commercial today that said something about JD Power initial quality and the Kia minivan being #1.

 

[Ornery]

Fantastic! Rear wheel drive, 4 door V8s. Now if they could only do it for a Chrysler price...

 

[m2kewl]

this is what happens when you go el cheapo, complacent, and hung by the balls by the unions.

soon the big three will be Toyota, Nissan, Honda :Q

 

[Nyical]

Originally posted by: conjur
Hmm...and I saw a commercial today that said something about JD Power initial quality and the Kia minivan being #1.

Hey I saw this commercial were these 4 guys got on this pad thingie and got transported to a planet like a zillion
miles away

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Nyical

Originally posted by: conjur
Hmm...and I saw a commercial today that said something about JD Power initial quality and the Kia minivan being #1.

Hey I saw this commercial were these 4 guys got on this pad thingie and got transported to a planet like a zillion
miles away

Why would they lie about a JD Power quality survey? Just a wee bit easy to refute, eh?

 

[Ornery]

Editors' Most Wanted Vehicles for 2003

• Kia added a fourth model to its 2002 mix, and it turned out to be a winner of a minivan. Moderately priced compared to its competitors, the Sedona is a true value with a beginning MSRP of less than $22,000. That's about $7,000 less than our Most Wanted Honda Odyssey, and for minivan shoppers who are on a budget, or for those who simply don't need the extra goodies that Honda packages into its Odyssey, the Sedona is a solid second choice. And thanks to the van's outstanding crash tests results, Sedona buyers can feel confident about strapping precious cargo ? their children ? into the rear seats.