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- From: tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: CONSUMER REPORTS
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 01:09:08 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- References: <1992Nov13.195709.26693@osf.org> <13NOV199217394991@csa3.lbl.gov> <milo-141192174802@mielo.dorm.rutgers.edu>
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- I'm not a CR basher. We subscribe to CR and find their auto reports
- helpful, if somewhat parochial and middle-of-the-road. Some examples:
-
- 1. The Mazda Navajo is "more reliable than average" while the Ford
- Explorer has "average reliability", despite the fact that they are the
- same vehicle, made at the same factory. How could this be?
-
- 2. CR always complains about spare tires underneath the rear of a car,
- because "your hands get dirty". As someone who has unloaded a trunk
- full of camping gear in the poring rain to get out a spare, I'd say
- under the car is the best place for a spare tire. Besides, who ever
- had clean hands after changing a tire?
-
- 3. This month's report on sport utility vehicles misses an important
- point about off-road driving: low range. As someone who spends lots of
- time on dirt roads, I can say that low range is more important than 4WD
- under most conditions. CR didn't say anything, and from what I could
- see in the pictures, the Montero didn't even have low range, and it was
- missing in Jeep Quadratrack. Anyway, the SUV report was obviously done
- by somebody who never goes off-road.
-
- 4. I hate automatic and CR hardly ever tests manual transmissions.
-
-