That sounds like a great and witty response but….. it’s not.
I’m NOT a Toyota fan and I currently own a FORD buddy.

JDP 2010 IQS is at http://www.jdpower.com/autos/articles/2010-Initial-Quality-Study-Results/page-27

On the other hand, warranty has nothing to do with “reliability”. Warranty is only a financial arrangement regarding duration and scope of repairs.

“Availability” is the measure of a vehicle’s readiness for use. Time lost to the inability to use a vehicle, say due to being dead-in-the-water, failed inspection, on the way to the shop, or under repair all reduce availability and increase inconvenience. Availability measures % of time vehicle is ready to serve.

“Reliability” is the likelihood that each use, once begun, is completed as expected. Unreliable means that you didn’t finish the drive or trip. Reliability measures probability of success.

Durability is a measure of compliance with “expectations” and as such is subject to individual interpretation and marketing.

Lexus, for example, got where it did by designing and building vehicles with the lowest defects and engineered their vehicles to have low in-use failures, so initial availability and reliability was very high – they come with the lowest number of latent defects and the cars fail in service much less often than others. It also turned out that like Toyota and Honda, the reliability stayed high far longer than comparable vehicles in most classes, leading to higher availability, higher trust, lower cost of ownership, and brand loyalty based on satisfaction.

I have had some seat time in both of those vehicles and the Hyundai should be more like “barely luxury sedan” and the Audi “mostly luxury utility”.

My VW CC is nicer then a Genesis. Sure, it doesn’t have RWD or a V8 but that CERTAINLY doesn’t make a luxury car. I put the Genesis alongside a Chrysler 300.

Anyways. Go VW/Audi. World domination is in their sights. They have all of Europe and America is on its way. Get that presence in Asia and that is a completion on the play.

They are just as legit as JD Power, which makes sense considering they had cvirtually identical results in their very comparable study.

I find it funny that the Toyota fanboys are trying to claim the organization “must be owned by VW or Ford!”

Ah, yes, that makes sense. Especially considering Ford and VW have zero ties to one another on any level…makes total sense that they would go out and create this company that only recently began giving them awards.

Why don’t you just accept that change is here, and it is in the form of superior vehicles by players OTHER than Toyota or Honda. It’s time for a paradigm shift, stop living in denial and just accept it.

Tinfoil hats for all!!!

Here, take these LOLLERSKATES instead.