Ford, GM lead industry to best-ever showing in vehicle reliability -- J.D. Power study

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11. Exactly. CR is full of shit

Their subscriber's own cognitive dissonance over ballyhooed highly rated cars can and does affect their "ratings". Back when I worked on cars for a living, I used to get so puzzled as to why many cars that were high-maintenance, glitchy ( in what was an otherwise nice driving experience ), usually expensive European stuff were rated highly, while vhehicles that I, friends, family owned that were solid reliable fun transportation ( albeit lacking cache of whatever the darlings of the automotive media were of the day ) were panned spectacularly.

It happened so consistently I had to call bullshit. After that I didn't want to know their opinions on anything else either.