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No. 31: The
True Value of a Big Three
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The True Value of a Big Three
Queries
The queries for this mini-survey are:
Responses as of March 24, 2008
Response density chart of respondents' assessments of the value of a vehicle manufactured by General Motors, Ford, or Chrysler.
Willing to pay more than what is currently asked for a new Big Three manufactured vehicle Willing to pay no more than what is currently asked for a new Big Three manufactured vehicle Willing to pay no more than 95% of what is currently asked for a new Big Three manufactured vehicle Willing to pay no more than 80% of what is currently asked for a new Big Three manufactured vehicle Willing to pay no more than 50% of what is currently asked for a new Big Three manufactured vehicle Willing to own and operate a new Big Three manufactured vehicle only if it is given to me free Willing to own and operate a new Big Three manufactured vehicle only if it is given to me free and I am paid $20,000 to drive it the first year, more subsequently Willing to own and operate a new Big Three manufactured vehicle only if it is given to me free and I am paid $200,000 to drive it the first year, more subsequently Unwilling to own and operate a/another Big Three manufactured vehicle
The rule for Query 1 is that if two adjoining choices are selected, the response set will be accepted, but the selection more complimentary to the Big Three will be recorded. The following table gives the median value of a new Big Three vehicle as assessed by Mini-Survey respondents reporting ownership of a Quality Four product on or before July 8, 2005.
| Median Value of a New Big Three Vehicle as Assessed by Mini-Survey Respondents Reporting Ownership of a Quality Four Product on or before July 8, 2005, by Manufacturer | |||||||||
| Manufacturer | Big 3 Vehicle Valued at More Than What Is Currently Asked | Big 3 Vehicle Valued at What Is Currently Asked | Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 95% of What Is Currently Asked | Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 80% of What Is Currently Asked | Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Only 50% of What Is Currently Asked | Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing | Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing Plus Respondent Would Require $20,000+ per Year to Drive It | Big 3 Vehicle Valued at Nothing Plus Respondent Would Require $200,000+ per Year to Drive It | Respondent Unwilling to Own a Big Three Vehicle under Any Circumstance |
| Toyota Motor Corporation | √ | ||||||||
| Honda Motor Company | √ | ||||||||
| Subaru Division of Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd.1 | √ | ||||||||
| Nissan Motor Company1 | √ | ||||||||
| 1 Very few respondents reported owning a product by Nissan or Subaru. | |||||||||
| The Big Three manufacturers are General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler AG. See Glossary. | |||||||||
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| To view a computation of the true value of Big Three vehicles based on their accelerated rate of deterioration, see True Value Estimates of 2007 Big 3 Vehicles |
Search Engine Directory This table is provided primarily to give the visitor quick access to those search engines that site manager has found to be more consistently useful for information acquisition. For descriptions, strengths, weaknesses, comments, and other names and formats by which the following search engines are known, go to Search Engine Directory Page. Major Search and Metasearch Engines Exalead Yahoo! Ask.com Info.com DMOZ Site manager estimates that the Exalead search engine is presently 30 to 35 times better than Google, but is only 8% as good as Google was prior to the advent of large expenditures on internet advertising by the major automobile manufacturers. Site manager estimates that the Yahoo search engine is presently 15 to 20 times better than Google, but is only 7% as good as Google was prior to the advent of large expenditures on internet advertising by the major automobile manufacturers. Site manager estimates that the Ask search engine is presently 5 to 10 times better than Google, but is only 6% as good as Google was prior to the advent of large expenditures on internet advertising by the major automobile manufacturers. Info is a metasearch engine that scans 14 search engines for results. Metasearch engines are modestly successful in weeding out the junk within the first 10 entries of a search results page, but is, of course, of no help in inserting what is missing. DMOZ is the product of thousands of volunteers who select out the better sites that the web has to offer; consequently, there is an assurance of greater quality than the mean of what a search engine offers within the first 10 results of a phrase search. At Google, a web page of a dominant information provider may not appear in the first 1,000 entries, maybe the first 10,000 entries, of an applicable phrase search, at least since the advent of significant internet advertising. The Ixquick Metasearch Engine
