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- From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
- Subject: Re: CONSUMER REPORTS
- References: <13NOV199217394991@csa3.lbl.gov> <milo-141192174802@mielo.dorm.rutgers.edu> <lglq9kINNs18@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:58:05 GMT
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- In article <lglq9kINNs18@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
- >I'm not a CR basher. We subscribe to CR and find their auto reports
- >helpful, if somewhat parochial and middle-of-the-road. Some examples:
- >
- >1. The Mazda Navajo is "more reliable than average" while the Ford
- >Explorer has "average reliability", despite the fact that they are the
- >same vehicle, made at the same factory. How could this be?
- >
- >2. CR always complains about spare tires underneath the rear of a car,
- >because "your hands get dirty". As someone who has unloaded a trunk
- >full of camping gear in the poring rain to get out a spare, I'd say
- >under the car is the best place for a spare tire. Besides, who ever
- >had clean hands after changing a tire?
-
- Things like this are why there _are_ CR bashers on the Net...
-
- :-)
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