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Smart Shopper Comments: Consumer Reports/JD Power Rankings
674 messages, Last post on Sep 13, 2009 at 2:37 PM
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Replying to: dbostondriver (Mar 21, 2009 9:38 am)
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The Honda Civic get great reviews, but the Hybrid gets pretty bad remarks for reliability and acceleration. Also of note Acura gets pretty average reviews. While reliable, they rate poorly in comparison to ride and quality compared to Lexus and BMW. And lets not kid ourselves, the RDX is a joke. A tiny SUV with a turbo charger and huge premium. 
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Replying to: mickeyrom (Mar 21, 2009 9:49 am)
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Replying to: backy (Mar 21, 2009 12:22 pm) |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Mar 20, 2009 1:56 pm)  is not even an option.
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CR tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Sometimes it's just the cold, hard, ugly facts (or black dots). Other times it's just bright colors and rainbows (or red dots). Whatever those facts may be, CR reports them. That is the beauty of it.
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Just a heads up to all the Consumer Reports hater - GM admirers. CR gives the Chevy Silverado the best review. Are they wrong about that? |
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Replying to: andres3 (Apr 06, 2009 10:37 am) Be still my heart. That's funny. |
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Replying to: dbostondriver (Mar 21, 2009 10:46 am) There was a know defect in the thing that finally got a recall after years of owner grief. The Honda transmissions that were replaced under warranty with OEM had the same defect and burnt up just like the rest. (even the recall "fix" is iffy in my mind and just a stop gap measure to get them over theold Odyssey run and into the new 05 models.) The new 05' Odyssey had a different transmission that solved the issue. (no oil supply to a gear that ran dry, heated up and fried) But in the years of every Honda owner haveing the same problem, a CR warning was no where to be found. Toyota a/t's were also problematic for years...Camrys and Avalons a/ts would 'lock up the tourque converter in high gear and not allow the transmission to shift down quickly...lots of reports of owners nearly getting run into because the car would hesitate and stumble, looking for a lower gear to handle acelleration through an intesection. That went on for years as well, and CR had no mention. Don't get me started on Toyota engine 'Sludging'! |
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Replying to: longo2 (Apr 23, 2009 8:16 pm) I just test drove a new Insight and came away unimpressed.The thing seemed totally underpowered,had a extremely stiff ride and has what to me looked like a cheap interior.It is well equipped unless you get the base model in which case it comes without cruise control and has hubcaps.It's hardly cheap,still over 20K so why the cheap down of a fairly expensive car.
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