In article <vjrap7i92enl75@corp.supernews.com>,
GRL <GLitwinski@CHARTERMI.COM> wrote:
> I've subscribed to CR for decades, in spite of detesting their politics,
> precisely because you can count on them for an honest, fair, and
> financially disinterested (no advertising) appraisal of products and on
> their frequency of repair data for an appraisal of how well a product
> holds up in owners hands. Nobody does it better overall. (The buff books
> do better reviews from the standpoint of whether a car is fun to drive,
> but they tell you essentially nothing about reliability. Their long-term
> tests have far too small a sample size to be significant statistically.)
In one. You'd think those that constantly criticise such organisations
were forced to pay for them out of their taxes instead of them being paid
for solely by their members. But in any case, they prefer to read what
they *want* to be told about a product they've already bought or are going
to buy in a specialist mag. Which is good news for those specialist mags,
as *proper* objective testing don't come cheap...
Every car mag gets their test car from the maker's test fleet. That they
sometimes have faults is surprising, to say the least. A consumer
organisation buys the cars in the normal way like you or me. Which is more
representative?
> You give one instance where you say CR "blew" a review: Bayliner boats.
> Bayliners are entry level boats and lots of people buy them for just
> that reason - cheap and lots of bang for the buck. If they are as bad as
> you seem to think, they should have gone out of business long ago. Did
> they? Further, I don't recall having seen a review of runabouts in CR in
> decades, if ever. When did they review Bayliners?
> How about another example of when they blew a review? Something in the
> last decade or so.
Just about everyone has a couple of examples to trot out to 'prove'
consumer organisations are crap. Out of the thousands of products they've
tested. Perhaps they are perfect in their own work?
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Dave Plowman
dave.sound@argonet.co.uk London SW 12
RIP Acorn