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Originally Posted by lambroving
The auto industry is quite a spyder's web these days and most consumers have no concept of reality. They appear to believe auto rags, advertising hype and Consumer Reports, ALL of which are carefully slanted by $$$.
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Actually, that's not true. Consumer Reports is published by Consumers Union and CU accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers. CU supports itself through the sale of information products and services, individual contributions, and a few noncommercial grants.
My father, now retired, was a top executive with a multi-national corporation whose products were often tested and sometimes slammed by Consumer Reports. Whenever this happened, he would go on a rant about how the tests were biased and paid for by companies with competing products. Of course, he never could provide evidence for this and even though I would read him statements like the one above, he just couldn't accept that any negative review of one of his products wasn't somehow paid for by the competetion.