Hi, I have a general question about Ford quality, which I would like to use to predict what quality we can expect from the 2018 Expy redesign.
The current Expedition receives the highest marks for quality from Consumer Reports. Compared to the GM competition, like the Suburban, there really isn't any competition when it comes to quality. Ford wins.
Now my question begins with redesigns. I don't know if the reason for the current high quality in the Expedition is more due to the super long run without what's considered a major redesign? (Thus giving Ford many years to perfect the vehicle). Or is high quality typical across the entire Ford brand?
Typically when there is a redesign, quality drops for a year or two while the bugs are worked out- this is a fact. But this doesn't happen to the same degree all the time, it can range from negligible to significant.
The best predictor of whether a significant drop in quality will happen, is the current quality across the entire brand (according to Consumer Reports). For example, Toyota has recently received high quality marks across the entire brand. This means that even during a redesign year, their completely redesigned vehicle will generally be high quality. There will be a few bugs, but nothing serious. Now contrast this with GM in the 1980's. They had poor quality, across many of their models. Redesign years produced vehicles with significant quality issues, and one would be advised to stay as far away from a redesign year as possible in this case.
So my question is, what will happen with the new 2018 Expedition? And to answer this question, one must first answer this question: How is the current quality of OTHER Ford vehicles? Are they systemically great quality vehicles?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
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The current Expedition receives the highest marks for quality from Consumer Reports. Compared to the GM competition, like the Suburban, there really isn't any competition when it comes to quality. Ford wins.
Now my question begins with redesigns. I don't know if the reason for the current high quality in the Expedition is more due to the super long run without what's considered a major redesign? (Thus giving Ford many years to perfect the vehicle). Or is high quality typical across the entire Ford brand?
Typically when there is a redesign, quality drops for a year or two while the bugs are worked out- this is a fact. But this doesn't happen to the same degree all the time, it can range from negligible to significant.
The best predictor of whether a significant drop in quality will happen, is the current quality across the entire brand (according to Consumer Reports). For example, Toyota has recently received high quality marks across the entire brand. This means that even during a redesign year, their completely redesigned vehicle will generally be high quality. There will be a few bugs, but nothing serious. Now contrast this with GM in the 1980's. They had poor quality, across many of their models. Redesign years produced vehicles with significant quality issues, and one would be advised to stay as far away from a redesign year as possible in this case.
So my question is, what will happen with the new 2018 Expedition? And to answer this question, one must first answer this question: How is the current quality of OTHER Ford vehicles? Are they systemically great quality vehicles?
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
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