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– The most reliable cars you can buy
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Jason Norton, JD Power
Jackie Charniga, Detroit Free Press
David Kiley, Wards Auto
John McElroy, Autoline.tv
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Most reliable car… My 2006 Lexus LS430
John: great guests this week!
Most reliable car I have owned: 1996 Honda Accord EX. Durable to the N-th. Wonderful ride, efficient, great shifter (uh-huh 5pm MANUAL). Big difference, EXPECTATIONS vs company PRIORITIES.
I expected efficient, comfortable and reliable. That was the Honda mantra of the late 90’s. A match.
Now, people EXPECT the distraction systems to be perfect. And they are priorities, but still not delivered well. So, why are so many OEMs NOT aligned with their customer expectations? They DO know that it is expected, but ….
With new vehicle prices being as high as they are, and the poor state of the affective systems, I’m beginning to think I want OEMs to make a version of their vehicles that are stripped free of the infodistractive systems. NAV + phone link and ditch the rest of the ‘disruptive tech’.
A point that Jackie hit upon a couple times is something I’ve been SCREAMING at my PC about for YEARS now. Screens in the passenger compartment are DISTRACTING. IMO they are as distracting as holding a cell phone and they should be ILLEGAL. Because they lack tactile feedback you HAVE to take your eyes off the road and as you go from menu to menu the place you have to touch may move, so your vision is further distracted.
HERE’S A SOLUTION that really should be obvious: Voice recognition and spoken feedback from your phone such as we have on cell phones already is VERY capable. So why not reduce or REMOVE the damned screens and utilize that technology to interact with your vehicle to adjust the HVAC, the infotainment, to make a hands free phone call and so on…… you get the idea.
I simply do not understand why this approach hasn’t been explored and tried out.
MJB, Hard to beat Lexus when it comes to quality. It almost always comes out on top.