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Here's a look at 10 of the most reliable car brands and their ratings as determined by two major ratings organizations -- J.D. Power and Consumer Reports. Car brand J.D. Power rating (Problems per ...
Driving.co.uk ranked it #14 on their list of the 23 ugliest cars ever made, [136] Auto Express ranked it #5 on their list of the ten ugliest cars ever made, [137] and Drive.com.au included in their article on the worst cars of the 20th century, calling it "one of the silliest-looking cars of the century".
Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.
General Motors shines, but Lexus is on top. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
The compact SUV Suzuki Samurai gained a reputation in the U.S. market of being an unsafe car and prone to a rollover after Consumer Reports, the magazine arm of Consumers Union, reported that during a 1988 test on the short course avoidance maneuver (Consumer Union Short Course Double Lane Change, or CUSC for short), the Samurai experienced what they deemed as an unacceptable amount of tipover ...
Nader counters by pointing out that, at the time, annual (and unnecessary) styling changes added, on average, about $700 to the consumer cost of a new car (equivalent to $7,000 in 2024). This compared to an average expenditure in safety by the automotive companies of about twenty-three cents per car (equivalent to $2.29 in 2024).
Consumer Reports is a United States-based non-profit organization which conducts product testing and product research to collect information to share with consumers so that they can make more informed purchase decisions in any marketplace.
CARFAX was founded in Columbia, Missouri in 1984 by Ewin Barnett III and Robert Daniel Clark. In 1986, by working closely with the Missouri Automobile Dealers Association, the company offered an early version of the CARFAX vehicle history report to the dealer market.