I think you're being too charitable to the jgc. I've yet to have a jeep owner I know recommend that I buy one, yet the 4runner owners I've known are pretty quick to rave about it. This and what I've read from jeep owners and their problems with brand new vehicles is more than just a few people's opinion. Dodge/Chrysler/jeep has been bailed out twice because it's not a profitable company. Maybe these things are all just coincidences, but I don't think so.
Your post/mindset is indicative of the issue I mentioned. To you, and anyone else reading this, I don't intend to single you out or be anything less than cordial and respectful here. Believe me, I'm guilty of the same from time to time and it would be utterly ridiculous for me to "scold" another man. So please, don't take any of this in that light.
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Here is what you are saying:
There are 360mil people in the USA. A % of them own a JGC. You know a fraction of that %. The facts, based on the total % of JGC owners say one thing. You rely on your extremely narrow sample size instead, to form an opinion/fact/argument.
I've had some pretty rotten luck with Toyota from a quality perspective. However, my sample size of 1 matters for little against the facts. Except, of course, to drive emotion. It would be completely incorrect for me to say, as a fact, that Toyota has poor quality, regardless of what my personal experience has said. Now, if I were to say, "Toyota seems to have a high level of documented success when it comes to build quality, but I've not had much luck." This is an accurate and helpful response to someone asking me the question, "What do you think of Toyota?" Of course, if you don't know anymore than your experience or the opinion of others, then of course the proper response is, "I don't know enough about Toyota to have a useful opinion." However, let's be honest... when was the last time you've heard anything like that?
No one can argue the superiority of Toyota quality in comparison to Jeep. However, hop on over the jeep forums and I'll bet you find plenty of people who will say the EXACT same thing you are, only with Toyota being the subject. They are equally wrong if they submit their argument based on the same "evidence" of opinion.
Look at it this way: There are 100 Toyota 4runners sitting in a parking lot with 100 drivers sitting behind the wheel getting ready to start them up. 99 start, yours doesn't. You conclude, as a fact, Toyota 4runners are garbage because your "experience" told you so. ehhhh.... come on now.
In your post, you've even further removed yourself by saying "people you know" so it's not even
your experience you are basing this off of.
Look, change the topic away from something that illicit personal emotion. Change it to Apple vs Microsoft, Chevy vs Ford, Glock vs S&W, etc. etc. etc.
“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
