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- From: jnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John F Nielsen)
- Subject: Re: Survey impartiality (was Re: Profits to Japan?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.173420.12952@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:34:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.214504.19231@newsgate.sps.mot.com> mark@wdcwdc.sps.mot.com (Mark Shaw) writes:
- >
- >>Frankly, yes. This is not as unbelievable as it sounds. A very
- >>thought-provoking discussion on this subject took place in the
- >>rec.autos hierarchy several months ago. In case you missed it, here is
- >>a recap (as I remember it):
- >
- >>............ stuff deleted...........
-
-
- Just becaue you had a thought provoking discussion, ti doesn't mean
- the conculsion was correct.
-
- If you think the results of the questionaire in CU are baised against
- Americans and for Japanese because we are essenitally told by society
- how to think about our car then:
-
- Why is it that in CU just about Toyota cars(Celicas, Corollas, Camrys)
- uniformaly are black in ratings for reliablilty of their exhaust
- systems? **IF what you are saying is true then their should not be a
- pattern such as this.** The reason why it is plain and simple, Toyota
- exhasut systems rust out. Take a look at the muffelers in some of the
- 87-88 Corollas or Chevy Novas, you'll see a lot of them are brand
- knew. Shouldn't the Japanese car owners have selectively deleted this
- fault from their memory?
-
- Have you ever looked at the reliability ratings or just glanced and
- decided everyone is baised because it does not show the results you
- wished it would.
-
- Why is it that the Ford Crown Victora had great reliability while the
- Chevy Caprice Sucked? At the time(late 80's) they were very similar and
- very American. Did these Ford owners think the cars
- were Japanese?
-
- Same with Dodge Dakota(great reliability) vs. the Chevy trucks.
-
- I bet I can go through the whole book and find contradictions which don't
- coroborate with your theory.
-
- john
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