jason’s blog

The Mini is a great looking, quirky little car. As we switch to smaller and more fuel efficient cars, it will be cars like the Mini that will drive sales of the major car firms. In fact, Mini has posted the largest monthly increase in sales compared to last year for several months (Hummer led the largest decline).

However, today J.D. Power released their Initial Quality Study for 2008 and Mini ranked near the bottom. In fact, only Jeep ranked lower than Mini. This is pretty bad considering even Korean manufacturers Hyundai and Kia ranked much higher.

Hopefully BMW sorts things out at the Mini plants because I see them bringing the Mini with more engine options to North America very soon. In Europe they get more fuel efficient engines than we have here.

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