I worked for several years as a product developer for a company that made consumer products. Consumer Reports' results never followed our industry (real-world)testing results. The primary reason for this was thatCR developed their own testing standards for evaluating products. These tests typically never correlated with actual usage.

I view CR as the "National Enquirer" of product evaluation sources. Just good for a laugh every once in a while as I stand in the grocery check-out line!!

 

I have never liked CR. I swear they would test a Ferrari F430 and talk about how noisy or rough riding it was. Or better yet, that it had no luggage space. They would rate a damn Honda Prelude as a better sports car than a Viper because of "fuel mileage." I understand their logic in testing mainstream products like Camry/Accord/minivans etc. I believe those same testing parameters should not be used on "niche" vehicles marketed to select individuals who actually enjoy to drive. Their ratings are VERY biased towards one side of the scale. The most emotion you'll get out of a CR test is "strong acceleration".....................oooooooooooh the passion for driving they must have. They see vehicles as appliances and not individual expressions of ones personality and tastes.

Ok, off my soapbox now.........

 

im glad they are bashing it..

the fewer h3's i see on the road, the happer i feel about mine! lol

dont want these things to end up like honda civics! lmao

 

The 2 funniest things to me are that that they clearly never offroaded it but assumed it was good offroad and that they coplained about the weight of a swinging tailgait!

 

Give them a tree and attatch a "Hug Me" sign to it...

 

Who cares what they say, if your going to buy one you should test drive it. That's how you choose a vehicle not by what someone else likes or dislikes.

 

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they named the Hyundai Santa Fe as the #1 mid-sized SUV. one needs to only see that to laugh at the rest of their rankings.

 

Bunch of ****

 

CR is a bunch of old men and ladies rating stuff that they will never be able to own let alone drive....It's like movie critics "F" them too. Draw your own opinion from the facts not hear say or gossip.