Date:         Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:54:14 -0700
Reply-To:     Sam Scholten <vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Sam Scholten <vwvanagon@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: CRASH WORTHY??
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Volks,

Some more stuff, while we're all dissing CU...

In their test of an '84 Vanagon, they accused the Vanagon of
"side-to-side rocking". I have an '84 myself, and have never
experienced this. Has anyone else?

What do you think of their website? Do you think the
"subscribe-only-for-a-fee" auto database is just a little feh?
Remember that if someone else did that to their site, CU would bitch.
Come on, ack me up on this, guys.

They do like the Passat, though. They also think the New Beetle is way
better than the old one. Hmmm.

My $0.02 again. That makes all of 4¢.
Sam




---Joachim Beek <beekj@TSDHP.JSC.NASA.GOV> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Joel Walker wrote:
> >
> > i wouldn't trust Consumers Reports any farther than i can throw
their
> > testing lab. yes, i'm sure they do lots of good things for folks
who don't
> > want to have their own opinions, BUT Ralphie Nader and i fell out
over the
> > Beetle and his book "Unsafe at any speed", where he completely
lied about
> > some "tests" and fabricated other "data" to support his claims of
the
> > Beetle's lack of safety. no, i'm not saying the beetle was the
safest car
> [snip]
> >
> > joel
> > (musta been something in that biscuit this morning!)
> >
>
> Yes, and weren't these the people who compared virtually identical
Detroit
> badge-engineered cars in the 80's (Chrysler K-cars or some such) and
claimed
> that one of the twins was horribly unsafe while the other one was a
paragon
> of virtue?
>
> But wait!  Don't send in your money yet, there's more!  They also
reviewed
> and passed judgment on a Jetta (or was it a Rabbit?) praising
features that
> weren't even on the car...
>
> Joachim, blissfully ignorant of CU's (or is it CR's?) pronouncements
on his
> 90 Vanagon GL or
> 78 Scirocco
> ---
> "If we knew what it was we were doing,
>  it would not be called research, would it?"
>    A. Einstein
>

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