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Originally Posted by cpayne5

Two of those links are 3 years old, and one is 18 months old, and none are from JDP. Hardly current. They don't support your initial assertion, either. The 4th reports numbers that indicate Ford is tops in initial quality, but isn't from JDP. Initial quality is not quite the same thing as "quality". At all.

Here is the press release for the JDP link I posted above, if anyone wants to take a look at the details.

I always wondered what initial quality meant. Apparently from my research it is just how well the car performs in it's first three months, pffff...who cares. I want to know if it will least 10 years and 200k miles if it can do that the first three months should be a cake walk.

Some of these awards are just marketing tools.

Interesting read:

Ford Surpasses Honda In Initial Quality and Ties Toyota (The Torque Report)