Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:21:48 -0400 From: Malt_Hound <Malt_Houndnospamm*yahoo.com> Subject: Re: So, would you say Saabs are reliable?
pablo wrote: > I got a 2002 9-3 convertible to replace an expensive to maintain Jaguar XJR. > I owned Japanese (Infiniti) and European (BMW) before. > > I my opinion, one thing is build-to-last, the other is > new-car-trouble-ticket-statistics. The two don't necessarily correlate, and > many reliability reports in my opinion confuse the two. This is an *extremely* poignant statement. These two measurements are often mistaken, misused and misinterpreted as being synonymous, and they really are not. Personally, I would rather have a car with a larger number of infantile, niggling issues, but that was designed to go the long haul, than the inverse. YMMV greatly... -Fred W