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Top 10 Mini-Surveys |
| 67.* |
Is the Ownership of a General Motors Vehicle a Useful Index of 21st-Century Cognitive Uselessness? |
| 66.* |
General Motors Travails and Prospects |
| 65.* |
GM's Piston Slap -
Engine Knock
|
| 64.* |
Will Cadillac Be the Next Name General Motors Dumps? |
| 63.* |
Will General Motors' Buick and Cadillac Lines for Model Year 2000 Get a Reliability Grade Above an F? |
| 62.* |
How Would You Characterize GM's Brand Names? |
| 61.* |
A Saturn Owner
Survey: An Enquiry into Saturn Owner Satisfaction with GM's New Saturn
Strategy |
| 60.* |
A General
Motors Shareholder Satisfaction Poll: Enquiries into the Wisdom of
Initiating and Continuing the Saturn Line |
| 59.* |
What Do You
Think Doomed the Taurus? |
| 58.* |
A
Toyota Owner Survey with Enquiries into Reliability Importance |
| 57.* |
A
Honda Owner Survey with Enquiries into Reliability Importance |
| 56.* |
If
General Motors Goes Bust, Would You Give Half a Hoot? |
| 55.* |
A
Lexus Owner Satisfaction Poll with Enquiries into Lexus Durability |
| 54.* |
An Infiniti Owner Satisfaction Poll with Enquiries into
Infiniti Durability |
| 53.* |
A
BMW Owner Satisfaction Poll with Enquiries into BMW Durability |
| 52.* |
A
Toyota Owner Satisfaction Poll with Enquiries into Toyota Durability |
| 51.* |
Short
of a Bribe, Do You Think General Motors Will Ever Win a Pyramid Award for
Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction? |
| 50.* |
For
How Long Will Chevy Be There? |
| 49.* |
Is
the Escalade a Catera? |
| 48.* |
Big
Three Bin Readiness |
| 47.* |
Car
Esthetics |
| 46.* |
What
Automotive Characteristics Are Important to You? |
| 45.* |
Fit To
Get Rid Of: An Enquiry into the Relative Durability of BMW, Mercedes-Benz,
Toyota, and Volvo Motor Vehicles |
| 44.* |
When
Would You Describe the Under-the-Hood Noise of a Typical Vehicle of
Selected Lines as Grotesque? |
| 43.* |
If You
Purchased a Big Three Auto in the Past 5 Years, Why? |
| 42.* |
The Lemon
Statutes: Should General Motors and Chrysler Owners Have Recourse under
Them? |
| 41.* |
Rating
the Upstairs Component of Selected Auto Owners |
| 40. |
The
Transport Index to Conversational Value |
| 39.* |
An Owner
Satisfaction Poll for Honda, Acura, Toyota, Lexus, Subaru, Nissan,
Infiniti, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo Owners |
| 38. |
What Are
Your Plans Regarding Your Next Auto? |
| 37. |
How Long
Do You Plan to Own Your Current Auto? |
| 36.* |
What Do
You Think about Honda's New Chinese Auto Manufacturing Plant? |
| 35.* |
Your
Projection of the Future Relative Reliabilities of Motor Vehicle Models
Engineered by General Motors and Chrysler |
| 34. |
The
Changing Marques of Tourist Transport |
| 33.* |
Are
GM-Engineered Vehicles One-Year Throwaways? |
| 32.* |
Does the
Reliability Excellence/Dearth of a Vehicle Model Reflect the
Excellence/Dearth of the Owner's Standards for His Own Workmanship and Performance? |
| 31.* |
The
True Value of a Big Three |
| 30. |
Popping
Screws in Big Threes |
| 29.* |
Judging
Saturn |
| 28. |
Do You
Think Big Three (Chrysler-Ford-General Motors) Owners Are a Disadvantaged
Group for Whom Employment Quotas and College Admissions Quotas Should Be
Set Aside? |
| 27.* |
Big Three Owner Satisfaction Poll |
| 26. |
Jiffy
Poll for Returning Alumni and Observers |
| 25.* |
Rating
the Likely Efficacy of Secondary Educational Automotive Reliability
Instruction on the Bottom Half of the U.S. Population |
| 24.* |
How Do
You Rate Consumer Reports' New Car Recommendations? |
| 23. |
When
a Big Three Manufacturer (Chrysler-Ford-General Motors) Raises or Lowers
the Reliability of Its Products, Is It Commendable or Reprehensible? |
| 22.* |
Rating
Thoughts on Cadillac and Cadillac Owners |
| 21.* |
Rating the
Possible Explanations as to Why the Big Three Have No Evident Need to
Improve the Relative Reliabilities of Their Autos |
| 20.* |
Chrysler Engine
Noise and Knock |
| 19.* |
Are 1984-86 Toyota
Corollas Everywhere? |
| 18.* |
How Common or Rare
Is a 400,000 Mile Toyota? |
| 17.* |
A Big Three Vehicle: As Rare as an Ivory Billed Woodpecker in the Bayou? |
| 16. |
Toyota's
Current Market Share of 1981-1986 Vehicles? |
| 15.* |
What Do You
Like about Your Car? |
| 14.* |
The Plural of Lexus |
| 13.* |
As General
Motors Goes Japanese, What Do You Think about It and What Good Do You
Think It Will Do? |
| 12.* |
When
Does the First Malfunction of a Door Lock of a Typical Big Three (General
Motors-Ford-Chrysler) Engineered Vehicle Occur and When Does the Driver's Seat of a Typical Big Three Engineered Vehicle First Begin to
Rock and Squeak? |
| 11.* |
How Highly or Lowly Do You Rate
Mercedes? |
| 10.* |
Your Vehicle vs.
Expectations |
| 9. |
U.S.
Steel Corporation's Panhandling in the Vestibules of Washington: Queries
on Culpability and Consequences |
| 8.** |
When Should a Typical Big
Three (General Motors-Ford-Chrysler) Engineered Vehicle Be Tossed into
the Recycling Bin? |
| 7.* |
Toyota's Current Market
Share of 1980s' Vehicles? |
| 6.* |
Hyundai vs.
General Motors: Which the Better and by How Much? |
| 5.* |
A Complete Redesign and
What? |
| 4.* |
New Cars: Big Ink Blots
Overflowing with Annoying Contrivances? |
| 3.* |
Your Vehicle vs. Typical
Big Three |
| 2.** |
The Parking Lot Index to
Restaurants and Shops |
| 1.* |
The Flipping Ford
Explorer vs. The Tread-Separating Firestone
Tire vs. The
Thoughtless Consumer |
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