Mitsubishi is a b grade Japanese manufacturer. Nevertheless, I would
wager that its cars are more troublefree than anything that Peugeot,
Volkswagen or Fiat produce. The fact is that you can drive a Honda or
Toyota and maybe a Nissan 200,000 miles without anything of note
going wrong with them. If Mitsubishi is so bad, how come Peugeot
will be using a Mitsubishi SUV as a badged engineered Peugeot? On a
personal note, my little Mazda Miata has 131,000 miles on it and the
only thing that has gone wrong with it is that a tensioner bolt for
the A/C belt fell out. That's it.
In my view, European manufacturers such as Peugeot and Fiat are the
GMs and Fords of Europe. The Asians manufacturers are eating away at
their market share, and it has become quite noticeable in the last 12
months. European consumers aren't as obsessed with reliability as
American consumers are, but they do like style and refinement. The
Japanese are designing cars for the European market - small cars
which are just as refined as anything the mainstream European
manufacturers produce - and they are reliable. I'd take the latest
Honda Civic over any small Peugeot any day. Unless Peugeot improves
the quality and reliability of its product, as well as the after
sales service, in my view it will be in real trouble in its home
turf - Europe - in five to 10 years from now.
End of rant.
Hugo
- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, Alex Zepeda <alex.zepeda@g...>
wrote:
>
> On 1/29/06, gary freeman <riven2649@y...> wrote:
>
> > Unless you know something that I don't know ( entirely
possible ), Toyota mostly uses
> > Nippon Denso ( Denso ); and they haven't been part of Toyota
since 1949. All the
> > Japanese companies are excellent, not just the auto
manufacturers. Look at their
> > motorcycles, look at their bicycles and bicycle components
makers (although here they
> > do have equals), power equipment, and all their aftermarket
suppliers. These people take
> > pride in their work, like we Americans used to; but now we can't
wait till we get off work
> > and play. You can't have it both ways.
>
> So, all the American made Toyotas are crap? Uhhuh. Tell that to
the
> guys at the NUMI plant in Fremont, CA.
>
> Oh.. wait... all the Japanese companies are great? Then why is
> Mitsubishi nearly bankrupt, and DC has run screaming from Mitsu?
> Great cars my ass.
>
> --
> alex
>
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