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Old 06-03-10 | 07:05 AM
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Thumbs up Lexus Tops JD Power/What Car Survey in UK for 10th Consecutive Year

http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/lexu...er-2010/250150

Lexus dominates JD Power 2010
03 June 2010

* Decade at the top for Lexus
* RX top of survey again
* Big improvement from Jaguar

Lexus has done it! For the 10th year in a row it has come top in the J.D. Power and Associates/What Car? 2010 UK Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study (VOSS) thanks to continuous and unsurpassed levels of service and satisfaction.

Brushing aside ever-more-competitive rivals, Lexus earns a massive customer satisfaction score of 846 on a 1000-point scale. Owners are particularly happy in three of the four key measures: vehicle quality and reliability, vehicle appeal and service satisfaction.

Jaguar shows the strongest year-on-year improvement and receives high ratings from owners in vehicle appeal and service satisfaction. The Jaguar XF also ranks highest in the executive/luxury car segment.

'It's a fantastic performance from Jaguar and great news for the brand,' said Steve Fowler, editor of What Car? 'It's also great to hear that the XF, which we made our Car of the Year in 2008, has gone on to please owners enough to make it the top car in its class.'

The 2010 UK Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study (VOSS) is based on the evaluations of more than 17,000 online interviews from UK car owners after an average of two years of ownership. The study was fielded in December 2009 and January 2010. Owners provide detailed evaluations of their vehicles and dealers, which cover 67 attributes grouped in four measurements of satisfaction. In order of importance, they are: vehicle appeal (37%), which includes performance, design, comfort and features; vehicle quality and reliability (24%); ownership costs (22%), which includes fuel consumption, insurance and costs of service/repair; and dealer service satisfaction (17%).
Individual model results: http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/jd-p...ey-2010/250115
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Old 06-03-10 | 07:13 AM
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The U.K is their biggest market in Europe so great work Lexus!
Old 06-03-10 | 08:36 AM
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Congrats Lexus.
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goes to show its not only the Americans that like our SUV type vehicles. Where is the LS on the list
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Nicely done Lexus, in a competitive European field.
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Originally Posted by RXSF
goes to show its not only the Americans that like our SUV type vehicles.
True in Europe, IMO key difference is that SUVs are for those in the upper income brackets mostly.
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for Lexus and what a surprise in Jaguar as heard nothing but bad about them in older model.
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Originally Posted by RXSF
goes to show its not only the Americans that like our SUV type vehicles. Where is the LS on the list
SUVs are the biggest growing segment in Europe. Probably no LS on the list as there was not enough data.
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Originally Posted by RXSF
Where is the LS on the list
No S-Class, 7-series or A8 either.
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Yes, the flagship segment is small enough already, probably not enough survey respondents. Interesting to see the RX vault to the top for the 2nd year in a row, previously it was the IS which was the top Lexus, and here still a good top showing.
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Originally Posted by IS-SV
True in Europe, IMO key difference is that SUVs are for those in the upper income brackets mostly.
Not necessarily. The Nissan Quashqai, Ford Kuga, Toyota RAV4 and Honda CRV are relatively inexpensive and have good followings. If there is a good diesel option with low CO2 emissions for tax purposes they will sell well across the board.

It's good to see Jaguar continuing to do well in these surveys.
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Originally Posted by Big Andy
Not necessarily. The Nissan Quashqai, Ford Kuga, Toyota RAV4 and Honda CRV are relatively inexpensive and have good followings. If there is a good diesel option with low CO2 emissions for tax purposes they will sell well across the board.

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Good examples of affordable SUV's mentioned, agreed. But what you don't have in the UK is SUV's like Explorers/Tahoes/GC's, etc. driven by people with low to average incomes, a common occurance in the US.
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