An additional thought:
I suspect those ranking could be skewed for people's expectation for
their cars in different price segments.
The fact that Acura is way below Honda, and Infiniti is somewhat bellow
Nissan probably doesn't tell that the "fancier" sub-brand cars are
necessarily worse, but rather that people expect them to be better/more
reliable for that amount of money.
I.e. (unlike Lexus) they don't live up to the "premium brand" level.
It is less obvious in case of the "luxury" brands that don't have
"consumer" brand counterpart, such as Audi (although it is not in the
"bottom 10" in the ranking I've linked), - but the same "broken
expectation" bias is probably present.
Igor
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Paul,
First of all thanks for (unintended) reminder to look at J.D. Power reports
(I am looking for a car now).
I didn't do an extensive search, but this listing that I found:
http://www.jdpower.com/ratings/study/Vehicle-Dependability-Study-%28VDS%29-by-Make/1881ENG
shows Ford among the same "bottom 10" (~#6 from the bottom) ranking on
dependability, below Subaru.
You might be referring to a different parameter...
Or, there might be a more fine-grain ranking, as this table is rather crude.
Igor
Paul Stenquist Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:56:16 -0700 wrote:
I have no idea what the problem was with Ecosport, but Ford does just fine
here. Subaru, on the other hand was among the ten most problematic cars in
the latest J.D. Power survey. Audi and Infiniti made the bottom ten as well.
Paul via phone
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