{"id":476589,"date":"2010-03-26T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/26\/bloomberg-survey-says-americans-turning-away-from-toyota\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T20:23:00","slug":"bloomberg-survey-says-americans-turning-away-from-toyota-liking-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/476589","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg<\/i> survey says Americans turning away from Toyota, liking Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2010 Ford Fusion – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nFor the past generation or so Toyota<\/a> has been synonymous with two things: Selling more passenger cars than anybody else (Camry<\/a>, Corolla<\/a>) and quality. Sure, there have been a few other themes associated with ToMoCo (green hybrids, not ready for prime-time full-size trucks), but for the most part, ubiquitousness and reliability have been the big selling points. Then came a particularly nasty case of sudden acceleration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a> that four out of 10 Americans say they would “definitely not buy a Toyota.” Compounding matters is another part of the Bloomberg<\/em> survey that reveals a significant 36% of Americans have a negative view of Toyota. Ouch. Potentially worse is that less than half (49%) of those surveyed have a favorable view of Toyota. <\/p>\n

Contrast those results to what Bloomberg<\/em> learned about Ford<\/a>. An overwhelming 77% of consumers have a favorable opinion of the house that Henry built. That’s seven percent more favorable than second-place Honda. The survey found that many people are so amped up on the Blue Oval because unlike fellow American companies General Motors<\/a> and Chrysler<\/a>, Ford avoided taking Federal bailout money. That’s probably part of the good will, but we think it runs a bit deeper than that.<\/p>\n

Ford is making good products. With the exception of the soon-to-be-replaced Focus<\/a>, every vehicle they make is a class leader. There’s no compelling reason to choose a Camry or Accord<\/a> over a Fusion<\/a>, and the Fusion Hybrid<\/a> just might be the best gas\/electric vehicle on the market. The Flex<\/a> is a true segment buster, and perhaps the most comfortable under several hundred thousand dollar way to move four adults around. The F-150<\/a> is as good as ever. Would you choose a Yaris<\/a> over a Fiesta<\/a>? There’s also Ford’s faster product cycles (think new 2011 Mustangs<\/a>) and market-leading technology like Sync<\/a>. Put it like this: these survey results don’t surprise us an iota. <\/p>\n

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Gallery: Review: 2010 Ford Fusion SE 6MT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Car Buying 2010 Ford Fusion – Click above for high-res image gallery For the past generation or so Toyota has been synonymous with two things: Selling more passenger cars than anybody else (Camry, Corolla) and quality. Sure, there have been a few other themes associated with ToMoCo (green hybrids, not ready for prime-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}