Over on the cars.com blog "Kicking Tires", Nissan is rated 11th for quality perception (meaning what people think the quality of a brand is, even if they don't own a
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01-29-2010, 02:49 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
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New Study has Nissan ranked 11th in quality perception
Over on the cars.com blog "Kicking Tires", Nissan is rated 11th for quality perception (meaning what people think the quality of a brand is, even if they don't own a car of that particular brand).
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Insert face palm. Who cares? I love my Z and don't care about polls or studies or comparisons with Porsches, etc.
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yah, ive driven quite a bit of the bread and butter toyota's at rental places and they were all crap. no better than a chevy colt or colbalt watever they're was called.
toyota really needs to get back into the game. but then again, why is vw in there? i dont think that survey is very accurate. |
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The point of posting this though was that if Nissan's quality is seen as relatively low, this might explain the low sales figures for the new Z. Yes, it's the economy, stupid, but what happens when economic times are bad? People go more for quality and take that more into consideration when making major purchases. I personally will pay attention only if one of the major quality-tracking firms states that Nissan's quality is low, which so far, I haven't seen (they've always been average or above average).
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Well we went to 10th place since Toyota sank to the bottom of the list.
BTW, someone was smoking something good with their perception.
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I still think that alot of this has to do with all of the problems that and low scores Nissan received for the 2004 to current Nissan Quest (same body), that thing was and is a reliability/maintenance nightmare.
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I loved my Defender 90 until the engine started sputtering every time I'd drive it. My first date with a girl, it broke down as we pulled through McDonalds to pick up a Coke for her (not the final destination of the date!). I had to push it through the drive-through as the window person leaned out, waving for me to pull up. Very embarrassing. In retrospect, I think the catalytic converters were shot and were choking the engine. Great vehicles if you're prepared to replace every single part eventually .
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sounds like we all are doing the samething as the article, unless we have driven all cars for years we cant really do anything but guess ourselves about the rankings.
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