Originally posted by GrandMasterKhan:
and dont forget those figured may even be skewed considering a number of japanese auto manufactuers fail to 'own up' to their factory defects in order to save face. (and to keep all those silly americans thinking they make excellent autos that never break)



This is true. My wife owns a 98 accord 4 cylinder. Very reliable but it has had it's quirks. It has had problems with transmission and clutch 'way before it should have' according to our family honda mechanic. I did a search on 98 accord transmission problesm and sure enough, there were many cases, complaints filed, and even an Internal Technical bulliten, yet Honda fails to acknowledge it and issue a recall. Could you imagine what that would cost them. There are an aweful lot of 98 accords on the road. I found so many people on car opinion sites etc talking about this problem, it actually seemed to be more common than our tranny issues with the contour/mystique.