IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK?

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Mon 23 Apr 2018 13:45
IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK? - colric

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVxxPMh1oUk

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Tue 24 Apr 2018 09:29
IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK? - expat

It is an international market with much the same cars sold everywhere. If a transmission is unreliable in one country it is unlikely to be good in another.

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Tue 24 Apr 2018 12:48
IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK? - Manatee

The principles certainly apply anywhere.

But most people don't care. Unreliability happens to other people. And depreciation is irrelevant for people who like the monthly payments and like the shiny thing.

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Tue 24 Apr 2018 13:59
IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK? - galileo

The principles certainly apply anywhere.

But most people don't care. Unreliability happens to other people. And depreciation is irrelevant for people who like the monthly payments and like the shiny thing.

Browsing this week's Auto Express, I see that placed third in their "Top 75 new cars to own" survey is the Alfa Romeo Giulia (manufactured from 2016).

How can cars (no more than 2 years old) be placed 3rd out of 75, when 40.3% of owners report theirs has gone wrong?

Are all the Alfa owners boy racers who care more about the badge and the performance than whether it can be trusted to get them from A to B?

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Tue 24 Apr 2018 16:03
IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK? - Miniman777

The principles certainly apply anywhere.

But most people don't care. Unreliability happens to other people. And depreciation is irrelevant for people who like the monthly payments and like the shiny thing.

Browsing this week's Auto Express, I see that placed third in their "Top 75 new cars to own" survey is the Alfa Romeo Giulia (manufactured from 2016).

How can cars (no more than 2 years old) be placed 3rd out of 75, when 40.3% of owners report theirs has gone wrong?

Are all the Alfa owners boy racers who care more about the badge and the performance than whether it can be trusted to get them from A to B?

I tend to take the majority of reports in AE with a pinch of salt. Plus they seem to be biased to certain manufacturers. I also find the choice of some cars in their comparison tests baffling.

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Tue 24 Apr 2018 16:09
IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK? - madf

The principles certainly apply anywhere.

But most people don't care. Unreliability happens to other people. And depreciation is irrelevant for people who like the monthly payments and like the shiny thing.

Browsing this week's Auto Express, I see that placed third in their "Top 75 new cars to own" survey is the Alfa Romeo Giulia (manufactured from 2016).

How can cars (no more than 2 years old) be placed 3rd out of 75, when 40.3% of owners report theirs has gone wrong?

Are all the Alfa owners boy racers who care more about the badge and the performance than whether it can be trusted to get them from A to B?

Alfa Romeo drivers are happy when the cars starts and stops..

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Tue 24 Apr 2018 22:19
IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK? - Avant

One thing the survey people never tell us is the size of sample for each car. Tens of thousands may have answered the survey as they claim, but how many of them have that particular model of Alfa?

A few years ago the MG6 came very near the top: I can't believe they had more than half a dozen owners reply.

They also regard reliability and build quality (taken together despite not being the same thing) as simply one of their relevant attributes. To most owners, reliability is much the most important attribute of all.

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Wed 25 Apr 2018 10:22
IN A LAND FAR,FAR AWAY......... - VIEWS RELEVANT IN THE UK? - skidpan

These surveys are a waste of time.

Remember 2 in particular after which I gave up believing them.

Kia Sportage came out No 1 in the survey. It had a 100% rating in every category. The sample size was ONE and they were obviously very happy. But why the feck did the magazine include it.

In another survey one of the categories was COLOUR. If owners were not happy with the colour the car was marked down. Were the owners blind or stupid (or both), If they did not like the colour why the feck buy it.

As for the Gulia coming 3rd when 40% have been faulty in only 2 years on the market totally defies belief. I looked at the survey and found the Fabia (which we have on order) down in something like 50th position. Yet only 4% of the cars had been trouble and its been out over 3 years now.

I appreciate its not a reliability survey since its cunningly described as a "Satisfaction" survey. But what kind of person can be more satisfied by a car that is 10 time more likely to break. In two words a "COMPLETE MUPPET"

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