Saw the new '07 Sebring Thursday

[Dori A Schmetterling]

I thought the issue was reliability, not boredom.

OTOH, a bit of unreliability makes for excitement...

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling

 

[who]

You bought cars from the most unreliable of the Big 3....

How can you say that as Ford wasn't mentioned! <

 

[Newsgroup User]

How can you say that as Ford wasn't mentioned! <

That was the point - it's pretty much a given that GM and Mopar build
junk. Ford is about at the Nissan level of quality.

 

[David E. Powell]

don't *even* get me started on the American cars I've owned (all new
btw, and, if you knew me, would know that I'm religious about
maintenance and washing and waxing).

For example, my brand new 79 Berlinetta Camaro.

The pin stripe running down the middle of the hood was off center by
over THREE INCHES! What the heck was the factory tech doing? Was
he/she drunk?

Possibly. To be fair, the late 1970s were not the best time for quality
control. I remember vaguely (I was quite young then) seeing misaligned
pin strips on the sides, door panels, etc... not sure if any were off
by three inches, but it would not surprise me.

THEN they painted clear coat over the pin stripe!

Also, the car arrived *out of the factory* with a dead battery.

Then the starter caught fire.

Then the alternator froze up and snapped the belt.

Then the front end had to be realigned SIX TIMES the first year
because it kept eating tires.

SNIP

Quality control on US cars has come some ways since then....

DEP

 

[Bill Putney]

That was the point - it's pretty much a given that GM and Mopar build
junk. Ford is about at the Nissan level of quality.

Tell that to my '96 Mercury with the wrong engine wiring insulation
(literally turns to dust), and they held a silent recall and now refuse
to do anything (past the limits they set).

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

[Newsgroup User]

Tell that to my '96 Mercury with the wrong engine wiring insulation
(literally turns to dust), and they held a silent recall and now refuse
to do anything (past the limits they set).

Guess you and the many Toyota owners that have sludged engines even with
3k oil change reciepts that were told to take a hike have something in
common then!

 

[who]

Guess you and the many Toyota owners that have sludged engines even with
3k oil change reciepts that were told to take a hike have something in
common then!

Are you implying that Chrysler is taking of those unfortunate people who
had the Chrysler 2.7L V6 sludge up?