Cars have been around for more than a century, and they have been perfected and adapted to meet our needs. Now, in the age when your phone is also a camera, a map and a fashion accessory, you expect to get everything, all the bells and all the whistles, even in a basic city car which more than a decade ago would barely have qualified for air-conditioning or ABS.
This change, brought about by the seemingly exponential burst of new technologies now available at much lower prices, has thankfully been accounted for by industry analysts, in an effort to provide the public with the most accurate studies that they are capable of producing.
One such study, recently released by J.D. Power, concerns the appeal factor of cars and how it is calculated, as well as the part everybody wants to see, the list of the best and worst performers.
For 2013, Porsche still leads the standings, but last year’s runner-ups, Jaguar have fallen way down, below Cadillac and their own Land Rover. The second spot this year was held by Audi followed by BMW. Smart, Mitsubishi, Subaru and Jeep made up the bottom end of the table, with the clever builder of city cars falling one position, losing its edge over last year’s poorest performer, Suzuki – oh wait! They went out of business (in the U.S.)…
Still, this kind of information is best conveyed in its original form – through graphs and… graphs. We have attached some for you to take a look over after the virtual jump. There’s also a video that offers an explanation as to what really makes a modern car appealing.
By Andrei Nedelea
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