Another Reason Not To Buy A Nissan: New Car Ratings Out
The new performance scorecard from Truecar.com which it describes as how it “measures the overall performance of a brand or manufacturer based on pricing, sales, incentives, customer loyalty, market share, and inventory turn data.” Some of the vehicles at the…
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Some of the vehicles at the top of the list are strangers to the better end of car ratings. Land Rover is an example, but now that it is owned by Tata Motors, quality may have improved.
Audi, BMW, and Porsche are very high on the list. The Jaguar, which used to be a widely criticized brand is in the “A” category as well. It was bought by Tata, too.
Nissan is at the bottom of the list. It does not have the long-term quality reputation that Honda (NYSE: HMC) and Toyota (NYSE TM) do. But, oddly enough Honda rates very poorly. Saab, Mazda, and Volvo fill out the section of the worst vehicle brands. It will be interesting if the three, all of which are small companies, will be around in 10 years.
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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.
TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.
McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.
