Consumer Reports Ranks 911 #1
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Originally Posted by deputydog95
and for comparison, just what should we expect to see if we sampled 10 porsche drivers doing down the road? (this ought to be interesting 
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Originally Posted by Hossfly
Your knowledge is very limited.
How objective can the popular car magazines be in reviewing cars when the car manufacturers line the filler pages with advertisements from cover to cover?
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Gun Test Magazine. But they only test guns, ammo, scopes, etc. Right now other than my Mustang mags. Consumer Reports is the only car mag I get. I canceled the others; I got tired of all the Honda/Toyota BS.
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1. How can you rate reliability on some cars specific model yet some is in general? All Carreras, all SL, all CLK vs. 4 cyl Solara or even single out 2006 Mini Cooper hatchback and based on 1 model year? I think that's just BS. There is no basis of a true objective test. It's garbage.
2. Do you really think they make enough money selling mags to have money to conduct scientific tests on all variety of products? Donations? Dream on. What? All the tester works for free? They borrow testing equipments? If they have to test cars, that's a lot of money to buy them to test and sell them off after testing. Oh, wait, they get them for free just so they could be tested. I bet the guy who wrote it drives a 4 cyl Solara and he think it's sporty. The whole mag is one big ad.
2. Do you really think they make enough money selling mags to have money to conduct scientific tests on all variety of products? Donations? Dream on. What? All the tester works for free? They borrow testing equipments? If they have to test cars, that's a lot of money to buy them to test and sell them off after testing. Oh, wait, they get them for free just so they could be tested. I bet the guy who wrote it drives a 4 cyl Solara and he think it's sporty. The whole mag is one big ad.
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I don't have much faith in CR. Look at when they test audio equipment such as speakers...they think Bose is good. No self respecting audiophile would buy any of the audio equipment they tout as being good.
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Originally Posted by LS7 Thunder
Let me make it clear that I'm NOT here to bash Porsches or tout Vettes, like some have done. 
And my car had the roof issue, it was replaced, and everything else is great. Subjectively, we all know Corvettes and Porsches drive differently, and that's why we own different cars. To trust Consumer Reports to review cars is 
Let them stick to their vacuum cleaners, household bleach,....reviews.
And my car had the roof issue, it was replaced, and everything else is great. Subjectively, we all know Corvettes and Porsches drive differently, and that's why we own different cars. To trust Consumer Reports to review cars is Let them stick to their vacuum cleaners, household bleach,....reviews.
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