BEST VALUE AWARDS WINNERS - Infiniti Not On The List
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Re: BEST VALUE AWARDS WINNERS - Infiniti Not On The List (lino)
And why is this worth posting? It's relevance is.....? These gys are.......?
Even their definition of value is nebulous. Who cares?
Even their definition of value is nebulous. Who cares?
Re: BEST VALUE AWARDS WINNERS - Infiniti Not On The List (lino)
What a joke.The following cars are acknowledged to be among the worst in their class, yet they get awards for value?Toyota Corolla (used to be good, but no more)BMW 6 SeriesBMW 750LiAudo A6 Avantand,BMW 760Lilino wrote:http://www.vincentric.com/Vinc....aspx
Yet the only mention of the top-rated Honda Civic is the Hybrid, and the BMW 3 Series is completely ignored, despite a stellar record.
What a buncha dweebs.
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Re: BEST VALUE AWARDS WINNERS - Infiniti Not On The List (StarPD)
That list irks me something severe.StarPD wrote:Yet the only mention of the top-rated Honda Civic is the Hybrid, and the BMW 3 Series is completely ignored, despite a stellar record.
What a buncha dweebs.
Read the individual car descriptions. Some of them are winners because they cost less to operate over time than EXPECTED. What kind of criteria is that? If I buy a crappy car and expect to spend $1000 on it and only have to spend $500, that doesn't improve the car's value for me. It's still the same POS. I just happen to have $500 extra dollars in my pocket. The car still sucks.
Also, the pictures are VERY misleading to anyone not very familiar with the automotive world (meaning the average Joes who will likely find the awards most useful). 5 year tests on a 2009 Malibu? I don't think so. The tests are all headlined by latest-model pictures. And not all of them have been around in their current iteration long enough to be relevant to the testing. The new Camry in the photo at the top of the Camry summary isn't the one that got their award.
And no hybrid will EVER be a value. Hybrids are a joke, and even more so in 80-mph-highway America. I'd like to see how the ownership value of the awarded Hybrids looks when the batteries need replacing.
And finally, the inclusion of depreciation in the car's value is stupid. Depreciation only matters to people who intend to sell their cars early in their lifecycle. For everyone else, it's completely irrelevant.