Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?

Well you sure changed your tune. All you did was bitch about the avalon
before and praise the 300. What happened?!

 

I did not change my opinion at all. I still think the Avalon sucks and the
300M is a better car. However if one compares newsgroup posts, Chryslers
have more problems posted than Toyotas.

 

Asuuming for a moment that this is a given there's many compelling
explanations of
why your seeing this. One obvious one is that when foreign makes fail, the
cost to
repair is a lot higher, as a result most foreign cars are going to go
permanently
out of service as soon as anything serious happens. by contrast domestics
are going to go through a number of repair sessions since the repair costs
are
lower.

What is really needed, and this would make a damn good thesis, is for some
enterprising graduate student to run a study of perhaps 4-5 average wrecking
yards and for all vehicles that come into the yard that come into it not
because
of wrecks but because they have stopped running and they aren't worth
repairing any longer, to survey the make and model and odometer reading.
Then they could put that data into a model along with the initial sale price
of
the vehicle, and figure out what the real TCO is for foreign vs domestic
cars. The same thing could be done with surveys of towed abandonded
vehicles.

Grad students write thesis of garbage analysis all the time, this isn't any
different, except that it would actually produce data people would want
to read, as opposed to useless trivia like the percentage of banannas
that go bad and get tossed instead of being eaten.

Ted