No, not the Yugo:)) Although some of my Czech relatives drive Skodas, which aren't bad actually. On this side of the pond (the UK side), Euro = crap generally.
Think Rover, legendary in former times as terrible cars, Landrover (the Freelander is a bad vehicle), Ferrari (my mate has gone through 3 gearboxes in 5000 miles), Fiat (ha ha ha!), Citroen, the list goes on.
Toyotas and Nissans are good over here though, generally. Although boring, they top our J D Power satisfaction survey year after year.
It all looks pretty thin to me - there's not a lot of data to be had from the Princeton site.
A quote that might be relevant here:
'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' (Arthur C. Clarke)
We do a lot of work in our research group looking for correlations between parameters in complex systems. The 'schoolboy' error is to see two traces with lots of peaks and troughs, pick two which happen to occur at the same time and say 'hey, there's a correlation'. No, it isn't.
My Hyundai Coupe/Tiburon starting displaying an ABS fault lately. After $150 of diagnostics the main dealer could only tell me that 'there's something wrong with it'. No kidding. $2000 to change the ABS unit, or another $2000 to change the wiring to it was the only way they could guarantee to fix the fault. And that was the main dealer! Since the car is only worth $10,000, you can easily guess that the light is still on in my car. And to think I bought it to be more reliable that a European car...
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No, not the Yugo :)) Although some of my Czech relatives drive Skodas, which aren't bad actually. On this side of the pond (the UK side), Euro = crap generally.
Think Rover, legendary in former times as terrible cars, Landrover (the Freelander is a bad vehicle), Ferrari (my mate has gone through 3 gearboxes in 5000 miles), Fiat (ha ha ha!), Citroen, the list goes on.
Toyotas and Nissans are good over here though, generally. Although boring, they top our J D Power satisfaction survey year after year.
It all looks pretty thin to me - there's not a lot of data to be had from the Princeton site.
A quote that might be relevant here:
'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' (Arthur C. Clarke)
We do a lot of work in our research group looking for correlations between parameters in complex systems. The 'schoolboy' error is to see two traces with lots of peaks and troughs, pick two which happen to occur at the same time and say 'hey, there's a correlation'. No, it isn't.
My Hyundai Coupe/Tiburon starting displaying an ABS fault lately. After $150 of diagnostics the main dealer could only tell me that 'there's something wrong with it'. No kidding. $2000 to change the ABS unit, or another $2000 to change the wiring to it was the only way they could guarantee to fix the fault. And that was the main dealer! Since the car is only worth $10,000, you can easily guess that the light is still on in my car. And to think I bought it to be more reliable that a European car...