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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Survey impartiality
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 06:02:14 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov17.083126.575@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov9.215144.11675@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1992Nov10.230951.723@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov16.154624.4093@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) says:
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- >In article <1992Nov16.154624.4093@oakhill.sps.mot.com> rvkl60@aus18a25.sps.mot.com (Tom Mathes) writes:
- >>I DID check. Look at the April 1992 issue of "Consumer Reports". This
- >>is what I found:
- >>-Ford Explorer - Worse than average
- >> Mazda Navajo- Average
- >[etc...]
- >>All of these cars are "badge engineered". As far as I know, these cars
- >>have the same mechanicals but differ in trim and/or accessories at most
- >>(typically the only difference is the name).
- >>
- >>In each case, the American nameplate got a worse overall rating than
- >>the Japanese nameplate.
- >>
- >>I stand my my assertion that the C/U survey is biased.
- >
- >not to defend consumer reports, but does this overall rating include
- >dealer service, etc.? it's possible that the japanese dealers
- >were better about doing stuff under warranty and so forth (though
- >my experience was that the import dealers were dicks and the domestic
- >dealers were nice people).
-
- WHOAAA!!!!BIG TIME mistake here!!!!..they are ALL dicks!!!!!!
- do not let ANYone ever tell you otherwise!!!( :-) for those of
- us.....)
- DREW
-
- >i don't have much faith in consumer reports, anyway. they did
- >a review of some popular mountain bikes and it's fairly obvious
- >that as far as mountain bikes are concerned, they don't know their
- >ass from a hole in the ground. (yes i bike a lot.) ditto for the cars.
- >-teddy
- >
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