| HappySqurriel said: Personally, I have always hated "Car" fanboys ... I bought my Ford Fusion because it was (roughly) $5,000 to $10,000 less then a similar Accord or Camry, it had 0% financing (as compared to the 7.2% Honda and Toyota were willing to give), and I liked the car enough to buy it. I really don't care about the extra fuel mileage on the Japaneese cars because (with the ammount of public transit I take) I fill up my care once a month. I don't care that my car will have a lower resale value because I paid far less up front. I don't care that my car is 2% more likely to require a major repair in the first 5 years of owning it. I swear that car fans are about the only people who would be disrespectful enough to (essentially) call someone an idiot for making a purchase that suited their needs or desires. |
I agree with you. The funny thing about cars when it comes to reliability is that its all perception. People tend to lump all Japanese, Euro, and American cars together. Reliabilty varies by brand. For example, BMWs and Mecedes Benz vehicles are some of the least reliable vehicles you can buy. Particulary Mercedes vehicles. They were the pinnacle of quality but their quality started to take a nose dive in the mid to late 90s. Toyota still has the best build quality but their number of recalls are on the rise while GM and Fords recalls are on the decline. Also the Fusion is an excellent car. Its actually based on the Mazda 6. It just has more interior space and the suspension is tuned a bit more for ride quality over performance.
BTW: A word of advice to anyone buying a new vehicle. Avoid Consumer Reports. Do your own research. Consumer Reports gets its reliability data from subscribers. This is an inherently flawed process. It would be like asking a Nintendo fanboy to review PS3 products or Sony fan to review Nintendo products. CR has told its readers for years that domestic cars are junk. So they have an inherent bias for Japanese cars in particular and against anything else.
