From vehicles I have worked on and for salvage first the jeeps then the
vanagons and then the toyota trucks.  The first three are on the roads and
when I find them in the salvage yards they have many recoverable parts.  The
aerostars have fallen apart quite literally and there is little salvageable
on them.
jimt

On 5/18/05 5:07 PM, "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM> wrote:

> I wonder how many of those other vehicles are still on the road all these
> years later... and how many of them are turning 200, 250, 300k on the meter?
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Pearson" <Aaron.Pearson@GXT.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:37 PM
> Subject: jd power dependability 1990
>
>
> i love my van, but sometimes i'm a little annoyed that it couldn't have
> been engineered to be a bit more reliable.  the new york times just
> reported that toyota and gm got top marks in the jd powers poll of 2005
> vehicles.  this inspired me to look at vehicles from 1990, the earliest
> vehicles for which jd powers has statistics online.  i picked three
> comparisons that seemed relavant to me.  the rankings below are for the
> "long-term" (4-5 years) reliability.  we could do worse...
>                                                               jeep
>                                               volkswagen      grand
> ford            toyota
>                                               vanagon wagoneer
> aerostar        landcruiser
> Mechanical Dependability                XXXoo           XXooo
> XXXoo           XXXoo
> Feature & Accessory Dependability       XXooo           XXooo
> XXooo           XXXXo
> Body & Interior Dependability           XXXoo           XXooo
> XXXoo           XXXoo
>
>
> aaron
> '87 syncro gl
>
>