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So the risk, and penalty, are simply too high for any organization like CR to even think about rigging test results, or reporting false test results to further a secret agenda.' And making the deceit public would destroy the organization, especially one like CR. It would require complicity from many people, over a long period of time, to pull off. All it would take is for one employee (or former employee) or board member to bring the issue to the press. Also consider how hard it would be for an organization to keep this kind of deceit from the general public. That is a very serious charge, and I haven't yet seen any evidence to support it.

(Wagons got a pass though, if you needed more space.) They seldom tested anything more expensive than a Cadillac DeVille, and even then, such tests were rare, as practical consumers had no need for such extravagance.Д«ACKY SAYS: The assertion leveled against CR is that they intentionally adjust their test results 'to favor brands that they like, specifically, they adjust test results to favor import cars over cars from companies based in the U.S. They dissed higher performance engines at nearly every opportunity and strongly advised against the flashier hardtops and convertibles of the day.

JD POWER UTILITY RANKINGS 2014 PLUS

Plus they tended to focus on basic 4-door sedans, oftentimes saying the base 6-cylinder (or 4-cylinder for smaller cars) was good enough for most people. Plus one thing I've notice is how much more 'enthusiastic' and positive the reviewers and editors are now compared to the 'good old days.' Go pick up an old copy of CR from 30, 40, or 50 years ago (from a university library for instance) and see how dismissive they were of cars back then, because of poor workmanship and the resulting prevalence of what they called 'sample defects.' Some Chrysler products in the 70s had more than 40 such defects per car - that is, things gone wrong.

So was CR biased in favor of GM back then? I hardly think so. Maybe Andre, who is so knowledgeable about cars of these decades, can back me up. What no one has mentioned is my earlier comment that GM vehicles tended to get the highest recommendations in most groups of cars tested by CR in the 70s and 80s, certainly in the large and midsize classes where there was little or no Asian competition. Yeah, like anything can remain secret these days for very long! Your comments remind me of the few remaining (I hope) UFO fanatics who still claim the government is covering up the TRUTH.

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