Big cities suck
"Not putting miles on your Ferrari is like not having sex with your girlfriend so she'll be more desirable to her next boyfriend." -Napolis
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
My Jeep is awesome (course, it's a real one, not those cherokees, etc. that most people think of as jeeps.)
It transfers. My dad bought a 2000 Dodge Ram in 2001 with a 7 year 100,000 mile warranty and it still applied. Right after he got his they switched to 10 year 100,000, and then lifetime. Lifetime would have been nice, but nothing's broken (despite heavy abuse and a couple of accidents) so I guess it doesn't matter much yet.
Big cities suck
"Not putting miles on your Ferrari is like not having sex with your girlfriend so she'll be more desirable to her next boyfriend." -Napolis
yeah the I6 jeeps were alright providing the rest didn't shit itself a la lucas electrics style..
maybe chrysler felt they could promise that warranty because they won't be around to honour it
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
I think those very X5 are sold even here and so for the Z4 (at least their previous gens)
why you are not quoting Chrysler's quality?
that was the point of my posts, what I would like to know if the assembly ability of Chrysler's plants is good or not.
I guess the main design and so on would stick in Italy btw.
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I took your comment to mean cars made in the US in general. As for Chrysler assembly, I can't say with certainty. The PT Cruisers are supposed to be well assembled. The are reported to have some issued with their automatic transmissions but not the manual boxes. That would suggest the vehicle is well assembled but one of the components isn't up to par. The supplier of the transmission or the engineers who spec'ed the transmission would be to blame, not those who are in charge or actually performing the assembly of the car.
However, I don't know if that is true for all Chrysler plants. I generally don't follow Chrysler and haven't since the Germans further screwed up the company. I don't know if the problems with Chrysler vehicles are due to assembly mistakes/failures or if they are due to poorly selected, designed or assembled components.
Now if all Chrysler plants are like the PT's plant then Fiat could be OK. In that case, so long as the components brought to the plant are good, the total car would be good. A 500 built in the PT's plant would probably be fine. It's also possible that Fiat's design is inherently better from an assembly point of view thus making it easier to ensure that even careless assembly results in a correctly assembled vehicle.
Incidentally, I wonder if Fiat could use the 500 name in the US. Ford recently had a car named the 500. They may still own the US trade mark for the name.
Wasn't the first generation of M-Class Benzes made in the USA and subsequently a continuous source of trouble?
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I've not experienced the latest FIATs, but the others I've known have all seemed pretty Dodgey... now they really WILL be.
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