How Poor Reliability Affects Warranties: An Analysis of General Motors’ Powertrain Warranty Reduction

In 2015, General Motors (GM) announced, it was reducing its powertrain warranty from five years/100 000 miles to five years/60 000 miles. GM stated that warranty coverage did not influence consumers' decision-making process when purchasing a new vehicle. However, this paper presents an alternat...

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Main Authors: Payam Motabar, Helmuth E. Gonzalez, Peter Rundle, Michael Pecht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8283691/