>Cars that are made in China have a lower fault rate than those in the U.S., according to J.D. Power
I looked at the J. D. Power assessment [1] and they are IMHO hard to compare:
>The 2015 China Initial Quality Study (IQS) is based on evaluations from 21,707 owners of new vehicles
purchased between October 2014 and June 2015.
>For 2015, the China IQS has been redesigned to include more specific diagnostic questions around eight problem categories [snip]
Now if you look at the same report for the US [2] you'll notice that there's no note of a redesigned questionnaire, which makes me doubt that you can compare both results if they're not gathered the same way. The US report also has four times as many participants (84k vs 21k) which may have skewed the results. In fact, it's hard to gauge the methods in general, very little detail.
In the end, the problems reported in the Chinese report aren't particularly severe:
>Unpleasant interior smell/odor is the most frequently reported as well as the most severe problem this year
I feel like that's an issue that doesn't have much to do with the car's actual quality (and it's also relatively easy to fix/cheat). It doesn't appear in the US report, which is weird - I'd expect the same brands to have the same problems (or is differences in smell a cultural thing?)
I looked at the J. D. Power assessment [1] and they are IMHO hard to compare:
>The 2015 China Initial Quality Study (IQS) is based on evaluations from 21,707 owners of new vehicles purchased between October 2014 and June 2015.
>For 2015, the China IQS has been redesigned to include more specific diagnostic questions around eight problem categories [snip]
Now if you look at the same report for the US [2] you'll notice that there's no note of a redesigned questionnaire, which makes me doubt that you can compare both results if they're not gathered the same way. The US report also has four times as many participants (84k vs 21k) which may have skewed the results. In fact, it's hard to gauge the methods in general, very little detail.
In the end, the problems reported in the Chinese report aren't particularly severe:
>Unpleasant interior smell/odor is the most frequently reported as well as the most severe problem this year
I feel like that's an issue that doesn't have much to do with the car's actual quality (and it's also relatively easy to fix/cheat). It doesn't appear in the US report, which is weird - I'd expect the same brands to have the same problems (or is differences in smell a cultural thing?)
[1] http://china.jdpower.com/sites/default/files/2015169_china_i...
[2] http://www.jdpower.com/sites/default/files/2015080_IQS.pdf