Country-of-origin (COO) research highlights the influence of a brand’s origin country on consumer decision-making (Hulland et al.,1996). The conceptualization of brand origin is a contentious issue that has attracted significant research interest in the international marketing literature (Magnusson ...
The first chapter of this saga (24,000 miles) is here; The second chapter (36,000 miles) is here. The combination of poor quality/reliability along with a very unfavorable exchange ratio was a body blow to VW, which watched its market share shrivel a...
Reading out the fault codes using a diagnostic device is relatively reliable. If you see any fault code from P0420 to P0424 or from P0430 to P0434 in the OBD2 scanner, it indicates a problem with the catalytic converter. However, this is not always the case, as a bad oxygen sensor c...