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11/06/08
We keep the past year's magazines in one of those cardboard magazine holders, for reference. Anything older than that, it's off to the public library. I didn't think the CR website was worth the money.
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their car reviews are good, longterm vehicular reliability claims are a little iffy, to obtain this data they send out a survey to some subscribers and ask them to rate their car.
the problem with that is a vast majority of readers are seniors and if they own, lets say, a mini cooper. their nostalgia clouds their judgment implying that its the best car on earth in terms of reliability. when, in turn, it has some serious design issues that effect interior reliability of some functions ie; seat heaters, toggle switches, radio.
just saying is all...
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Unfortunately, just because they don't accept advertising doesn't mean they aren't biased.
How else do you explain their rating of the Prius' gas mileage as moderate for its class? There was only one or two that even came close to its mileage.. [Back in 2002. I did lots of research before buying.]
They just didn't like the car because they skewed way too much toward luxury vehicles.
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This is a company that goes out and buys a unit off of the shelf to test. Or a car off of the lot. They get actual production hardware to test. Not some "special" version of a production device to review that is tweaked by the manufacturer.
I don't always agree with their ratings, but typically they're spot-on.
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They showed the NUMBERS. It was the highest. That was not anecdotal or perceived.
But it was only rated at Moderate MPG. How is that not biased?
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I haven't looked at their reviews of the Prius in a few years though.
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I don't read it for reviews of how good speakers sound, that's personal preference. I use it for facts not typically found in a magazine review. Like, how much power a TV uses when turned off, or how much suction power a Dyson vacuum really has, or how good an electric range is, or how well a HEPA filter does at removing pollutants. These are the same people that Sharper Image tried to sue after CR revealed just how shitty their Ionic Breeze device is, and how much ozone it produces.