Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Porsche 911 Named Most Dependable Vehicle by J.D. Power and Associates

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NASHUA, N.H.,  Porshe of Nashua is extremely pleased to announce that customers can now find by far the most dependable vehicle available throughout North America on it's lot. J.D. Electrical power and Associates has named the Porsche 911er sports activities coupe as the best vehicle on the path in the 2011 Auto Dependability Study (VDS).

With regard to sports-car enthusiasts, your award shows that the standard of the Porsche 911er is much more than cosmetic. High-overall performance cars often emphasize type and horsepower over longevity, leaving owners with auto-repair bills that match their speeding seat tickets. The 911er may nevertheless encourage a heavy feet on the pedal, nonetheless it won’t have owners pulling into the mechanic shop after every spirited short down the highway.


“Motorists may be thinking much more about speed or style than dependability when they buy luxury sports car, nevertheless that doesn’t suggest it’s acceptable to the vehicle to have far more problems than common vehicles like Hondas or Toyotas after three a long time,” said Larry Bedell, general manager of Porsche of Nashua, a fresh Hampshire Porsche dealer. “The actual Porsche 911er delivers this on-road performance which drivers expect in the sports car and the most beneficial reliability of any automobile on the road, showing again that Porsche’ersus engineers deliver exceptional value to buyers.”

The next year VDS analyzed issues using vehicles from the 2008 model year during a current 12-month period, checking how many problems ended up reported for every 100 vehicles of a granted model. While the common model had 151 issues per 100 vehicles, as well as about 1.5 problems per vehicle, the Mercedes 911er line had just 68 problems per 75 vehicles, less than fifty percent the average. The performance of the 911 suggests that many vehicles had simply no issues reported.

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Compiled on the responses of more than 43,700 vehicle masters who evaluated 202 distinct vehicle problems, the next year VDS found that industry-wide dependability is in its highest level because the inception of the research in 1990. While household brands have made major improvements in their trustworthiness in recent years, these people still trail import models such as Porsche by means of 18 problems per hundred vehicles this year.

Outside of its 911 line, Mercedes was also recognized in this particular year’s VDS for its overall production value. Review participants voted Porsche the top German manufacturer, while T.D. Power’s market researchers rated Porsche’ersus main plant in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany as the best car factory throughout world, based on the actual long-term quality on the vehicles it produces.

Mercedes’s continued focus upon quality and the resulting accolades helped the firm to increase U.Utes. sales by 36 percentage last month, the ideal March for Porsche dealers since 2007. These newest figures add to Porsche’s strong start to 2011, with sales within the first quarter up 24 percent over the identical period last year.

“This long-term quality involving Porsche vehicles comes not just from flawless manufacturing in the factory, but from customer-focused service options that specialized dealers such as ours can put available to maximize the lifetime of each vehicle,” Bedell additional. “This quality of each craft and care has been carried over from the 911 to newer types like the Cayenne crosswalk and Panamera sedan, so customers can be self-assured that any Porsche you can expect is one of the very best-made vehicles in the globe.”