Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Reliability Rankings

Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by blackhaz on Monday November 11, 2019 @05:40AM (#21503664)

Hah! And I have completely the opposite experience - with the exception of modern American cars of course (still miss my 90s Chrysler Saratoga!) Europe is very often about the looks and the function is secondary.

The most recent example - Vaillant vs Honeywell heating controllers. Vaillant looks fancy with decorative, smoothly flowing elements, knobs and fancy backlight, and the Honeywell unit is, well, spartan: big LCD letters, primitive graphics. Vaillant is crazy - it is too slow to react on temperature changes, the interface is just horrible: imagine no escape or back button - you just have to idle a minute to go back to the "main screen." It takes 30 seconds or so to connect wirelessly to the boiler, sometimes it fails or even freezes and requires a reset, and I can go on forever. I hate the fucking thing. Honeywell... Well it just works.

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by twic on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:41AM (#21503969)

I wonder if this is because Vaillant is really a boiler company, so they are good at things involving gas and water, whereas Honeywell are an electronics company, so they're good at things involving electricity and information.

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Re:Every American Car Brand Is on the Bottom Half of CR's Re... by onion2k on Monday November 11, 2019 @06:27AM (#21503901)

Every place I've lived in for the past 20 years here in the UK has had a Honeywell thermostat. They're pretty much the standard in cheap houses.

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