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Replying to: AKteacher (Jan 04, 2009 12:23 pm) The exterior appearance of the Murano is rated lower than many others, but that is a very subjective rating that I do not believe should be used in an objective ranking of these CUVs. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the Murano seems to cause a love or hate split, probably because it is so different from the traditional boxy appearance of SUVs. (Personally, I like the Murano a lot - but thats just me...  The safety rating is puzzling. I know the Murano is rated 5 stars by the govt for side impact and 4 stars for frontal impacts, so I thought that might be the reason for the slightly lower safety rating, but other cars with much higher ratings had similar federal star ratings. And other cars got very high ratings where US News did not apparently use the federal data at all. Further, US News gave a 9.9 safety rating to the Jeep Grand Cherokee, but stated "The federal government gives the 2009 Grand Cherokee top five-star scores for all seating positions in both frontal and side crash tests. However, it gets only a three-star rating in rollover tests. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gives it a top score of "Good" in frontal offset tests, but a much worse score of "Marginal" in side impact tests."" And US News gave this a 9.9 safety rating! US News does not seem to be at all consistent in the safety evaluations. Reliabilty ratings in this report is another puzzle. They claim to use JD Powers predicted reliability data, but for the Murano and several other vehicles, they show No Data Available for the cars, but give very different reliability ratings for such "no data" vehicles! Very puzzling and very inconsistent. I like the more objective, and consistent Consumer Reports data, which ranks the Murano extremely high in reliability, ahead of most of the vehicles rated higher by this US News reports. (Consumer Reports shows the Murano as 40% more reliable than the average mid-size SUV, and only 3 Toyotas, the Lexus, the Lincoln MKX, and the Honda Pilot having slightly better reliability.) So I think the US News "review of reviews" is far too inconsistent, weights "appearance" equality to safety, and is just flat wrong on its reliability numbers. But that's just me... --jayhawk
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