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>> Much of the reason they "didn't want them" was a fiction that they
>> quality was poor.
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>Fiction? I was looking at the ratings charts in Consumer Reports. >
Like I said, fiction. CR is all self reporting by people who hate American cars just because they are American cars. As people have noted in the past, when there are "imports" that are sold under both an imported name plate and an American Nameplate, the ratings for the imported version typically are noticeably higher then for the American version. Same car, same assembly line, only difference is a few trim pieces yet the American version somehow isn't as good..... If you look at teh JD power ratings there isn't a dimes worth of difference between any of the cars in the top half to 2/3rds of the list.