aGood Friday morning to you. I’m Jennifer Vaughn coming up quality ups and downs, but we’ll begin with your headlinesThe Indiana assembly plant that used to crank out Hummer SUVs for General Motors is being sold to a Chinesebacked electric vehicle maker AM General is selling its commercial assembly plant in Mishawaka, Indianato SF Motors for a reported110 million dollarsSF a subsidiary of SoCon industry group is based in Silicon Valleyand operates in engineering R&D center in Ann Arbor, MichiganAM General says the deal does not affect a separate military assembly plant or the company’s core military related businessAM General produces Humvees for the US Armed Forcesin2015 it began producing the r class at the indiana plant for MercedesBut according to published reports that contract is due to expire in October and the plant stopped making the mv-1accessible van for mobility ventures last yearSOCOM plans to invest thirty million dollars to upgrade the factoryAccording to a news release SF Motors will use the Indiana facility to produceIntelligent electric vehicles it expects to retain the factories approximately 430 workers most of whom are representedby the UAWTesla is in talks with record labels about creating its own music streaming service, but a source tells BloombergIt’s unclear if the automaker will ultimately decide to go forward with the service or continue with its current music partnersTesla works with slacker in the US and Canada and offers Spotify streaming service in Europe Hong Kong and AustraliaTesla Oly saying quote we believe it’s important to have an exceptionalIn-car experience so our customers can listen to the music they want from whatever source they chooseMeantime more personnel changes at TeslaDriving car venture whammo has hired Satish Jaya sundrianTesla’s former director of hardware engineering to lead its Hardware team andFinally GM safety practices are no longer under the oversight of federal regulatorsBut the automaker says it plans to keep meeting with them at least monthly about potential defectsFederal oversight was part of a 30 million dollar settlement GM reach with Nitza in 2014This after GM admitted it failed to recall faulty ignition switchesLater linked to 124 deaths and hundreds of serious injuriesDave sergeant has been working on JD Powers initial quality study for most of the 30 years that iqs has been aroundBut even he was surprised at this year’s results. This is without questionthe best quality that the world has ever seen in terms ofNew vehicles and this year we saw a 7. 6 percentimprovement in qualitySargeant telling the automotive pressAssociation that the class of 2017Beat the class of 2016 in nearly every respect and one reason better infotainment systemsWe’re seeing a significant improvement in this area these systems are becoming more stableThey’re becoming more intuitive for the consumer to operate and so that’s the area we see the biggest improvement case-in-pointFord brand it tied with RAM to reach fourth place this year the number of problemsreported per 100 Ford vehicles falling by 16 giving forward its best IQs ranking ever inRecent studies problems with the MyFord Touch infotainment system dragged down forth ratingsFord has since replaced my Ford touch with sync three, please say a command sync three isRemarkably better than anything that Ford has done in the past in terms of infotainmentSergeant says another reason automakers did better this year was smoother launches one exception is JaguarArraigned next in this year studyJaguar took the brave step of launching 83% of the sales volume in one yearand with an almost inevitableconsequence any brand that that does that sales go through the roof, but quality can beChallenged the F pace which is more than half of their sales mix in this time period had some a few policy challengesFinally another theme in IQs was the continued improvement by Korean brandsHere the dark blue line shows that yearly drop in reported problemsGenisys coming in second for 2017 and Kia topping the survey for the second year in a rowDespite several launches the Koreans have really got this initial quality thing nailedAnd this is not just this year this has been for the lastfive yearsThe Kia cadenza is this year’s most problem-free vehicle, but what about in that first survey in?1987 its simply exceptional a first-class ticket to automotive luxury nope it was the toyota cressidaThat ends our show, thanks for watching this week’s first shift. We’ll see you back here Monday morning
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