4X4 GIANTS COME BOTTOM IN ‘WORLD’ RELIABILITY STUDY

[laser_jock99]

www.easier.com/view/News/Motoring/article-95044.html

Saw some daft eco bint trying to use this 'news' (i.e. Crysler/Jeeps unreliabilty) as another reason not buy 4x4's on BBC Breakfast news. Watching Quentin Willson shoot her down in flames with some FACTS was a real treat!!!!

[Eeyore]

Hmm, of course, the Japanese car makers clearly don't make 4x4s then!  :roll: That'll be news to Nissan, Toyota and of course Mazda (but they rebadge others makers 4x4 instead, but you get my point).  :lol:

Yet another fine example of people not comprehending what they're reading.

Another great example quoted by the anti's was an Amercian survey that revealed that off-highway vehicles contribute more polltion than the cars on the road in the US. This was mistakingly taken as meaning 'off-road' by some biligerent UK anti-group and their vehement representative. In the States 'off highway' means yellow-goods. Kinda like diggers and dumpers and stuff. Nice one, bunny-hugger.  =D>

Mind you it isn't just the anti's. I have two technical papers at work where Brit researchers can't tell the diference between millimeters and mils (thous of an inch)!

Put it down to incompetance rather than malice on her part, she probably isn't all that bright.  

Don't suppose you video'd the interview did you - could do with a giggle!

cheers
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Eeyore

[Mace]

Watching Quentin Willson shoot her down in flames with some FACTS was a real treat!!!!

Classic. She didn't even know what a Merc S-Class was. Funny or what, even Dermot was chuckling to himself. She thought it was a triumph that 4x4 sales had slumped in London by 6%, to which Quentin replied "Range Rover Sport sales are up 66% in the rest of the country"

He's a hero !!!

[Eeyore]

Aw, come on!    After a build up like that someone must have this on tape!  :lol:

cheers
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Eeyore

[UKJeeper]

Aw, come on!    After a build up like that someone must have this on tape!  :lol:

cheers
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Eeyore

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/6288823.stm

Real player link on the right hand side. 8)

[Mace]

Thats NOT the debate I watched this morning !!  :shock:   Did they run it twice or was it taped for the internet ?  Bizarre.

[Eeyore]

Ta UKJ, very good! Should have thought about looking there myself.  :oops:

.....it's not only the anti's that can be educated!  

I'll start looking for the one you saw, Mace, it may be out thar somewhere!

Cheers
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Eeyore

[laser_jock99]

So

1 Mazda
2 Honda
3 Toyota
4 Mitsubishi
5 Kia
6 Subaru
7 Nissan
8 Lexus

Don’t make any 4x4’s then eh?

Nothing like doing some research first……..!!!!

[laser_jock99]

In fact aren't ALL Subarus 4x4?

[laser_jock99]

Thats NOT the debate I watched this morning !!  :shock:   Did they run it twice or was it taped for the internet ?  Bizarre.

No mention of the Mercedes S class in the internet version- they edited that out as it made her look even more stupid.

She dropped a clanger live on TV and said it was about 'symbolism' / jealously.
Breakfast news presenter picked up on it straight away...saying 'so its not pollution or size its a class thing...also got edited out!

[V8MoneyPit]

I saw that too this morning. Nearly spat my tea out it was so funny!

They certainly picked the wrong person for that interview. She came across really poorly. Where Quentin and Dermot were quoting facts, she was just answering that they were 'wrong', with no facts to back up her statements  :roll: She was simply spouting the misinformed generic rubbish like '4x4's are dangerous' and '4x4's polute more than other cars'.

Most articles like this get me angry because they are usually biased against vehicles, but this one came across more realistic.

[Rich_P]

Where's the other half of the video?

[Mace]

And they also editted out the bit right at the end when she said something along the lines of "at least 4x4's are now proven to be unreliable too, thank God"

Laugh a minute  :lol:

[Range Rover Blues]

Spot the catch, it's reliability of SECOND HAND cars between 3 and 9 YEARS old.

So come on folks, how much is a 3 year old pacific-rim car worth then?

" 'scuse me mate, have you got a lightbulb for my Perodua"

"yeah, sounds like a fair swap".

[Range Rover Red]

I was trying to watch the clip and it kicked me off the Internet!

[James.Harwood]

I think if you look into the polution aspect, My 1963 Series 2 has caused less polution than a Toyota Prius in a show room!!!