XPost: alt.autos.toyota, alt.autos.lexus, rec.autos.tech
From: epmeyer50@gmail.com
On 11/27/09 8:38 AM, in article
8dCdnWrqedf_eZLWnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@giganews.com, "z@tink.net"
wrote:
> wrote in message
> news:%8CPm.279529$Jp1.66565@en-nntp-02.dc1.easynews.com...
>> In article
>> ,
>> phaeton wrote:
>>>
>>>> This isn't new, either, suggesting that Toyota's troubles may be more
>>>> of a developing pattern than a one-time aberration. Two years ago,
>>>> before two-thirds of Detroit's automakers were tempered by the fires
>>>> of bankruptcy, the editor of the ostensibly "Japanese-loving" Consumer
>>>> Reports apologized to readers for recommending the problem-plagued
>>>> Camry V-6.
>>>>
>>>> He also said the magazine had decided new Toyota models could no
>>>> longer be given the benefit of the doubt -- or its prized
>>>> "recommended" label. And Toyota's V-8 powered Tundra four-wheel drive
>>>> pickup was labeled "unreliable" by the magazine, the unofficial Bible
>>>> to discerning car and truck buyers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I always take everything Consumer Reports says with a grain of salt.
>>
>> yeah, a 50 mile square grain.
>
> I have my own theory about Consumer Reports Ratings, when the ratings are a
> reflection of public response - who responds to the typical survey? Who
> writes letter to the editor? Who calls a corporate complaint/compliment
> line? Those who are not happy. So, in my own little not so humble opinion,
> CR public response ratings are skewed to the negative.
>
That may be true, but every time I have looked up CR's ratings for any car
I've owned over the past 40 years, the problems they predicted have matched
exactly with what I experienced.
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