Originally Posted by Skippy722
Originally Posted by wag123
Originally Posted by Skippy722
Originally Posted by wag123
http://dashboard-light.com/vehicles/Ford_Expedition.html
http://dashboard-light.com/vehicles/Lincoln_Navigator.html
Compelling? In what way? Build quality? Reliability? Bang-for-the-buc?
It is funny to hear YOU say this given how you are so critical of a manufacturer's build quality.
That site still uses a statistically insignificant amount of
USED AUCTION vehicles to draw their conclusions on.
Ford Expedition Vehicle count: 18,203
They sold 2,188,454 Expeditions from 1997-2015. That is a WHOPPING 0.8% of all vehicles sold.
Compared to each other, it
is statistically significant when you consider that all of the vehicle models are based on roughly the same percentage of total production.
If you know how auto auctions work now days, you know that it
is relevant to use auction vehicles to obtain reliability data based on vehicle defects. Auction mechanics know better than anyone which vehicle makes and models have specific problems that they commonly see on a regular basis, such as engine mechanical problems on 5.4L Expeditions and CVT transmission problems on Nissan Altimas, etc.
Also, Dashboard-Light's data closely correlates with Consumer Reports' reliability data.
You can try to justify it however you want, it's still a very tiny subset of all the vehicles. In an age where people trade their vehicles in instead of fixing them, I'd take anything that uses only auction vehicles with 150,000+ miles with a grain of salt.
Do not forget, consumer reports, company that said that Camry has exemplary sporty handling.