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- From: eliot@stalfos.engr.washington.edu (eliot)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: CONSUMER REPORTS
- Message-ID: <Nov19.035232.24496@engr.washington.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 03:56:30 GMT
- Article-I.D.: engr.Nov19.035232.24496
- References: <13NOV199217394991@csa3.lbl.gov> <milo-141192174802@mielo.dorm.rutgers.edu> <lglq9kINNs18@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- In article <lglq9kINNs18@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
- >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?
-
- care to respond to this, john? :-)
-
- >2. CR always complains about spare tires underneath the rear of a car,
- >because "your hands get dirty".
-
- they also complain about lots of other petty, unimportant stuff.
- sometimes their ignorance is amazing. e.g. they really bashed the
- alfa milano (hello, richard!) for pedal location without realizing
- that one wonderful feature of italian cars is the ease of
- heel-and-toeing. i suppose given the "ideal family sedan" standard
- that they follow it is valid criticism. but the least they could do
- is to mention that this is because of a different design philosophy as
- opposed to incompetence or bad design. lots and lots more examples
- when i remember...
-
- >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.
-
- heh! after all like they say, they are testing to see how good the SUVs
- would serve as "ideal family sedans"... what on earth would an ideal
- family sedan be doing off road?? :-)
-
- >4. I hate automatic and CR hardly ever tests manual transmissions.
-
- see above. :-)
-
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- eliot
-