Originally posted by mbTDI:
Originally posted by sigma:


Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2003 Infiniti G35: 51... AGE: 0

Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2003 Honda Accord (V6): 40... AGE: 0

Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2003 Nissan Altima (V6): 40... AGE: 1

Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2003 Mazda6s: 22... AGE: 0
(Note this car is produced at a Ford facility in Michigan)

Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2003 Ford Taurus: 20... AGE: 3

Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2003 Ford Focus: 10... AGE: 3

I picked those purely at random. Surprising results?




Not surprising at all! Older models SHOULD have less recalls than BRAND NEW models

(note: "age" defined as # of years BEFORE 2003 that particular iteration was produced... eg, new taurus was first built in 2000, G35 was all new in 03)



Fair enough. Good observation.

So, one could assume that if the 2003s were new designs that the previous model years should have less because they were the pinnacle of the previous design and had the bugs worked out, right?

Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2002 Honda Accord EX (V6): 28

Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2002 Nissan Altima (V6): 70

And since I obviously can't use the 2002 G35 since it didn't exist, how about the 2002 I35, which I believe was an old model:

Number of Recalls, TSBs, etc on the 2002 Infiniti I35: 37

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For the Taurus to have TWENTY issues THREE full years after its redesign (i don't even think it was an all new model, just a facelift, though I could be mistaken) is ridiculous. And the Focus is Ford's posterchild of "improvement in reliability" and it still has 10 issues 3 years after release.



In the grand scheme of things 20 issues ain't bad, and 10 is incredibly good. Very few cars have less than 10 reported issues. Even the venerable Civic has over 20 for most every model year and over 70 in some years.


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