Comment by pinko

Comment by pinko 14 hours ago

9 replies

Consumer Reports will also inform you of things like this in advance, if you look. (For this and 100 other reasons, It's worth paying for a digital sub.)

potato3732842 14 hours ago

Consumer Reports reporting is bought and paid for by the OEMs. They'll make a big issue out of nothing or minimize real issues depending on where the money is coming from. This goes back at least as far as the Samurai rollover scandal.

Pretty much all industry journalism where the journalists depend on being in the good graces of the manufacturers to get the access they need to make their content is like this.

  • dripton 13 hours ago

    Consumer Reports buys all the items they review, anonymously.

    • potato3732842 12 hours ago

      That doesn't stop them from doing questionable stuff and playing favorites. All this was aired publicly in the lawsuit Suzuki filed.

      • weaksauce 9 hours ago

        i don't know how you can say they play favorites. internal memos show that suzuki knew that they had a rollover issue because of the narrow wheelbase and CR called them out on it through testing.

      • dripton 12 hours ago

        Yes, many people make many claims. You should think about which ones to believe.

  • pinko 13 hours ago

    This is quite literally the opposite of true. Consumer Reports remains the shining exception to this practice, unlike Wirecutter, etc.