APT,
You have taken a small part of my post and have taken it out of context. Do you work for CNN? Please read the entire post this time! I am sure that a magazine that accepts advertising from a car manufacturer would have to walk a thin line to rate a manufacturer's car badly and expect to keep on getting advertising dollars. I do not want to debate this. I am not saying that CR is any better at rating cars. I do not want to debate this either. I would read as much as you can but IT TAKES A TEST DRIVE TO FIND OUT IF THE CAR WILL WORK FOR YOU (THIS IS THE MAIN POINT). For me, 80% of my decision in buying a car that I can afford is the test drive. The other 20% comes from magazines, Internet, friends, etc. Good luck to you if you give any magazine too much credit in helping you buy a car. I really do not want to discuss CR and other magazine's car evaluations since I take their recommendations like a grain of salt. I do read them, most of the time for entertainment.
