Blaster Man wrote:
Bill.Satellite wrote:
..I don't have any faith in a CR reports. They seem to be biased...
The April issue of CR lists maint issues reported by owners, CR has no input other than compiling the data. Every subscriber fills out a detailed report on his/her vehicles. Don't shoot he messenger.
I'm with Bill on this one. In most cases what CR recommends I find to be 180 degrees out of phase.
Sure owners report stuff, but thats a very, very, very small sampling of all owners.
They also have, IMO, a known bias, dating way back. We used to be CR subscribers. For me the last straw was when the original Taurus came out. At the time it was the highest rated car they had ever collected data on, besting the previous all-time high Toyota Supra, yet they rated it worse than average "because it's an American car".
I still will pick up their magazine from time to time and browse. A few years back they had tested tires. The winner was the current Michelin offering, that happened to be the same tire I had on my Fusion. I thought the tire bordered on being dangerous, they called it the best all-season radial ever produced.
Take a look at the Board sometime, it's filled with a bunch of left leaning people, and not much balance.
Now look at how they survey, this is almost laughable - in part;
We conduct many surveys by selecting a random sample from the millions of readers who subscribe to Consumer Reports and/or to ConsumerReports.org, who are some of the most consumer-savvy people in the nation.So just because you subscribe makes you "consumer-savvy". Umm...OK. :h And you're only gathering information from like-minded people who belong/subscribe to your publication? Seems like it's a very skewed sample before the fist bit of data is collected.
Nope, when it comes to CR I'm not a fan - even if they say something nice about the stuff I like. :B:B:B
