If you're buying a dishwasher, a set of non stick cookware, or a lawn mower, Consumer Reports is great. Relatively simple goods or machines that have a single purpose can be easily tested and compared. Cordless drills, dehumidifiers, dryers... how fast do the batteries charge, how much water is removed from the air, how noisy is it compared to others? How durable? Consumer Reports has the answers to these questions.
A vehicle, OTOH, is a much more complex machine, and different people expect different things, depending on how they intend to use it. Features that are indispensable to one person might be irrelevant to another.
