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Originally Posted by Hops
While CR is probably not a bad actor, as a non-subcriber, i find the reporting on CR annoying because i'm often not left with any information to judge the meaningfulness of the rating other than how one car ranks relative to another.
For example, if in the extreme case, i'm told CR rates 20 times more problems with one car than another, it's less meaningful to me if the difference was one car only had one problem in 1000 over several years versus the worse car had 20 minor problems with the infotainment over the same sampling. But it's rarely reported in a way for me to judge.
And i'm still reminded this is not a random sampling of owners, but of those who subscribe to CR, and of those, the ones that responded to the survey.
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They tend to rate and review cars from the perspective of non car people.
Hammered Cadillac for CUE, which while not awesome, was not horrible either.
Even Tesla was beaten up a bit for the auto door handles on the Model S.
Most of heir evaluations are about things many owners or enthusiasts who buy the car don’t care much about.
And a slong as you know where the data comes from and it’s limitations, it can be of value.
The only issue is do you love your Camaro and would you buy another one?
I would say for some cars going on the web to sites like Camaro6 and doing some research might be better than CR. But there aren’t many websites for my LaCrosse lol.