I was just looking at consumer reports and I am ashamed to be an American. Someone enlighten me here, is it something genetic? Why can’t Americans make a decent car?
Reliability risks
These cars have shown several years of much-worse-than-average overall reliability. AWD stands for all-wheel drive; 4WD, for four-wheel drive. Listed alphabetically.
Cadillac Catera Cadillac Seville Chevrolet Astro Chevrolet Blazer Chrysler New Yorker, LHS Chrysler Town & Country (AWD) Dodge Caravan (4-cyl.) Dodge Dakota (4WD) Dodge Durango Dodge Grand Caravan (AWD) Dodge Neon Ford Focus Ford Windstar GMC Jimmy GMC Safari Jeep Grand Cherokee Lincoln LS Mercedes-Benz M-Class* Oldsmobile Alero Oldsmobile Bravada Oldsmobile Cutlass Plymouth Grand Voyager Plymouth Neon Plymouth/Chrysler Voyager (4-cyl.) Pontiac Grand Am Volkswagen Jetta* Volkswagen New Beetle* Volvo S80* *The 4 non-american anomalies on the crappy-car list (I am sure we are somehow responsible for these too).
Update
“Admitting its past blunders in a newspaper and magazine campaign is an unorthodox attempt by GM to attract the roughly 40 percent of auto buyers it says won’t even consider GM products.”