Car of the Year awards -be it Motortrend, North American COTY, Canadian COTY or any other that I can think of, do not look at reliability (and I lump recalls into reliability) as a criteria. One of the main reasons is because they test the cars for maybe a couple of days weeks to months before the awards are given out. That, usually, isn't enough time for something to go wrong on a car.
But even then ... so what if a car gets recalled? Take it to a dealer or authorized independent shop, they fix it for free. Its an annoyance, but nothing more. Plus in many instances when a car gets recalled there isn't necessarily anything wrong with every individual car sold. Its some cars from a particular batch with some sort of defect that wasn't quite caught in time. But all the cars that
might be affected have to get checked out.
Furthermore, I would rather see more recalls than less. Because it is impossible to make every single part on every single assembly in every single car perfect. You can get very,
very close (and every manufacturer is close to perfect in that regard). But there will always be a few parts that don't get installed properly, or made with some unknown defect, or the engineering team neglected to address some circumstance, or whatever else is behind the recall. So, given that mistakes (in one form or another will always happen) I would rather see automakers recall than not -because if they don't, I'm the one that has to pay to get their mistake fixed.
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Isn't your car an import?  |
No, because Kitchener Ontario Canada is in the same country as Oshawa Ontario Canada. Infact, they're less than 2 hours away from each other on the same highway.
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Originally Posted by BMR Sales
Honda's aren't an Import - they are made in Ohio!
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They also have a plant in Ontario, an hour or so north of Toronto.
But at any rate, no car made in North America is officially classed as an import within the NAFTA free trade zone. Public perception on the other hand does not follow the same rules.