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Originally Posted by lamborghini A person who is interested in buying the car would do so after looking at the reviews.
A LTR should be updated constantly IMHO from the beginning. Won't waiting 3 years for ownership be a long time for a person who wants to consider buying a car?
Many people buy cars such as the Civic, Fiesta based on the reviews and these cars aren't even 2 years in the market yet. Without these reviews, consumers won't know of some of the trouble spots of cars like say for example the civics low GC, poor visibility or the Verna's poor brakes and suspension etc.
Every year, there are new products being launched and waiting 3 years for a review of a product is pretty long!
The only downside of not waiting so long is that we won't know about the reliability issues but as it was pointed out, cars today have to be reliable and every car would require work at some point in its life irrespective of how old/new it is and when the work is carried out, one can always update their review. |
A LTR is based on the mileage the car has clocked and not the time one has had it. I hope that's cleared your query.
The objective of the LTR is to let a prospective buyer know about the value of the vehicle with respect to maintenance, performance, reliability, resale value, service issues, failures of parts etc..
Starting a thread as soon as one does 100 kms or so and calling it a long term test in my opinion is a joke..
Maybe such posts can come in some other section..
I had started this thread in the Long term road tests section as i wanted other friends to understand what should contribute to the LTR..But the Super Admin has shifted the thread to Shifting gears and i dont see why!!
The purpose of this thread is lost if one continues to post a LTR after a few hundreds or a few thousands kms..
you should have a separate section for that! |