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    Since when are we #1 in the worst???

    I guess we are perceived as the worst in the auto industry and my new Mitsu is #3!!!! WTF!? Gotta make these bad boys outlast the rest and prove them all wrong!

    http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/auto...-car-shoppers/
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    Interesting...

    Where's nissan?

    I guess I'll have to trade in my VX for a Sportage.

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    I have to think it's that low because Isuzu doesn't produce passenger cars in the US anymore. Probably shouldn't have even been an option in the survey. You can imagine how the question would sound:

    "What do you think of Isuzu?"

    "Who?"

    "Isuzu - they used to produce their own trucks years ago, then started selling rebranded GM stuff for awhile before going out of business in the US. So what do you think of the quality of this brand that couldn't survive?"

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    Good point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascinder View Post
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    IMHO

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    Talking

    Well, we didn't go out of business though. In the other hand, we actually where the smart ones of all and bought back the rights from GM left 1-2 years before the economy hit a plunged and the auto industry got a sucker punch in the gonads. So really we should have a separate list for those that are smart unique and avoided humiliation in the media and the public eye. Isuzu is Numero 1,

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    Quote Originally Posted by vt_maverick View Post
    I have to think it's that low because Isuzu doesn't produce passenger cars in the US anymore.....
    That's exactly what I thought when I saw the article.

    That and I have a 3 year old Ford (#2 on the list) with 18k miles.... hmmmm, it has a rattle in the dash and my 10-year-old Isuzu with 124k miles doesn't.


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    Talking perceptions are like as*holes

    Quote Originally Posted by VXIRONwoMAN View Post
    I guess we are perceived as the worst in the auto industry and my new Mitsu is #3!!!! WTF!? Gotta make these bad boys outlast the rest and prove them all wrong!

    http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/auto...-car-shoppers/
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    You know, I bet this is due to the obscurity of the Isuzu brand now. If you ask the average person today, what do you think about Isuzu vehicles, they'll likely says something like, "huh? What's an Isuzu?"



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    Looks like a pretty useless survey. Check out the difference between Ford & Mercury. Scores 144 vs 14.

    Last I checked, Mercury = Ford + standard leather seats

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    Mercury drivers = old folks who've been buying Grand Marquis' for years, Ford buyers are a much larger cross-section. So you can discount the Mercury ranking as it's clearly biased.

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    This is why polls always say "Results not scientific."

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    I personallly believes that those surveys are just one good excuse to sell their magazines,nothing else.
    Although isuzu is out-of-business isuzu remains present due the large amount of their vehicules on the road today,any where your turn you can spot an isuzu,rodeo,trooper,amigo,etc and of course our beloved vehicross.

    So as to me those surveys are just that....surveys
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