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Originally Posted by hometeam
Consumer Reports doesn't advertise, but they do have a subscriber base. A subscriber base that they pander too, who only want to see Hondas and Toyotas as top billing, who are cheap as ****, and who are the ones who provide consumer reports with anecdotal content to fit the narrative that they have already established.
AKA, a circlejerk. Its a bunch of pretentious dickwads jerking each other off about how smart they are, even if they have to lie/manipulate/obscure/forget data to come to that conclusion.
So yes, Consumer Reports is as full of shit as the guy taking advertising money and writing articles to promote sponsors, maybe even more so since they tend to believe somehow they are morally superior for being a crowdfunded version of the same thing~
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I remember reading CR back around 2001 right after my dad bought a new Chevy Prizm. I was curious what CR had to say about Dad's new car. They gave it an "average" rating. In the same issue, they gave the Toyota Corolla the top rating.
The thing is the cars are identical mechanically. They were built on the same line and only had minor trim differences. I own the car now and the engine parts are stamped "Toyota".
The Prizm
is a Corolla. So why was it rated average while the Toyota version got top ratings?
