DBC
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- Don
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I wouldn't argue with any of the scores. To the extent I'm familiar with the vehicles they seem about right. The caveat would be that some things depend on context. For example, the MME is not as good a vehicle where I live than the Chevy Bolt. The Bolt is smaller and more maneuverable, working better with small parking spaces and congested streets. That doesn't mean the Bolt is a better vehicle. It's not. But for some things it is better. IOW when you need a screwdriver the best hammer in the world isn't better.
That said, the big miss IMO is the table mostly ignores price. It does use "value". However, value assumes a certain level of quality and/or features. A vehicle which offers more "value" could be a much higher priced vehicle than one which offers less "value". But the world doesn't work this way. If you can only afford a $30K vehicle it hardly matters that a $45K vehicle offers more value.
The second issue is that price plays a far more significant role than what a table like this suggests. In the table price is just one factor among many. In the real world price is probably equal in importance to all other factors. The better way would be to sum all the points other than value and then divide the points by the price of the vehicle. That would give a "bang for the buck" number which is what many people are looking for.
Perhaps the solution to this is to just leave the lower cost vehicles out of the comparison. The price differences of many of these vehicles isn't all that different, making a direct comparisons more realistic.
That said, the big miss IMO is the table mostly ignores price. It does use "value". However, value assumes a certain level of quality and/or features. A vehicle which offers more "value" could be a much higher priced vehicle than one which offers less "value". But the world doesn't work this way. If you can only afford a $30K vehicle it hardly matters that a $45K vehicle offers more value.
The second issue is that price plays a far more significant role than what a table like this suggests. In the table price is just one factor among many. In the real world price is probably equal in importance to all other factors. The better way would be to sum all the points other than value and then divide the points by the price of the vehicle. That would give a "bang for the buck" number which is what many people are looking for.
Perhaps the solution to this is to just leave the lower cost vehicles out of the comparison. The price differences of many of these vehicles isn't all that different, making a direct comparisons more realistic.
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