One of the best fwd platforms when introduced in ‘98. Strong reliable 3.5 v-6. (The 2.7 was garbage.). Tons of room.

What Chrysler needs, first and foremost, is better entry level marketing. Something Diamler was clueless about, and, it seems so is Fiat. The Dodge -Ram-SRT-Viper thing is a prime example, while Chevrolet has all of these things under one roof and does rather excellent as such.

Wait.

I don’t see all of this logic.

Agreed.

So you are saying manufacturing and assembly is directly related to long term reliability?

Not buying this argument.

So the ‘Initial Quality Survey’ has little to no useful information beyond assembly quality, yet the media crows about it.

Not really. Assembly mistakes happen all the time. 5000 parts put together in a matter of hours.

Yet the media still crows about ‘JD Powers Initial Quality Survey’

This

Totally agreed.

Can someone please explain to me what the first 90 days of ownership has to do with overall quality and engineering?

Soap is an emulsifier for certain things. So, you are correct. For oil/water. But my car is not always covered in oil.

Soap is the ‘cleaner’.

Travis Pastrana’s double back flip on a motor cross bike.

Bbbut......

Automatic transmissions that were junk. Head gaskets. Intake gaskets. Spider efi garbage. And to top it off. Vacuum 4wd that would suck atf from the txcase into the hvac door actuators.

Once again, Tyler, you never fail to amaze me.

We agree about one thing. The blazer.