Consumer Reports is a thoroughly politicized, left wing "nonprofit" organization. Recall they are in love with Obamacare, and long for the day when there is no private health insurance, only a failed, Govt.-run single payer system.
Two thoughts:
1. You pay way too much for something that you know isn’t that great then you’re going to the mat to argue that it’s the most awesome thing out there. The survey is pointless.
2. I could drop a load right in your living room and argue that it smells pretty good to me.
Does GM provide a booklet that shows cities with street plug-in adapters so these VOLT things can be recharged; ones that haven’t been vandalized? What’s the miles per gallon when they have to use the gas engine?
I hope they like it. We all paid top dollar for them.
so both customers are pleased, eh?
Consumer Reports is a thoroughly politicized, left wing "nonprofit" organization. Recall they are in love with Obamacare, and long for the day when there is no private health insurance, only a failed, Govt.-run single payer system.
no fair.
let’s compare apples with apples, not apples with broccoli.
give me a car that cost over $100,000 to manufacture, charge me only $30,000 for it.... you pay the rest ....
and then ask me if I am happy with the deal or not
ps: but I don’t want a piece of krap like a volt, so
you give me a Corvette zr-1 and then we can talk
thank you.
Only the true earth worshipers purchased one, so with such a small group I am not surprised.
If the customer had to pay the $100K+ full cost of the Volt, would they be just as happy?
And given that the median household income in the US is less than $52k, when will such customer satisfaction surveys include the satisfaction ratings of the head of household from which the annual income was taken?
This is a prime example of hype delivered to the news media for some “free advertising” on a failed product.
We just finished an election cycle which proved most polls are B.S.
This is not at all surprising.
Using the same sort of reasoning, I’m sure that the Reverend Sun Myung Moon was the most beloved religious figure of late 20th century.
Ninety-two percent of Kool Aid drinkers endorse... Kool Aid.
What a shocker.
I see your Volt and I raise you an Un.
A 2011 government probe of Volt *battery fires* that found no major problems and gives a $7,500 federal tax credit.
Logic isn’ in use.
The only new car I bought based on Consumer Reports was the WORST car I ever owned...(Volkswagen Dasher...).
I saw some numbers yesterday regarding TGW surveys (Things Gone Wrong) for all of the auto manufacturers. This was a slide presentation, so I can not source them for my FRiends.
The general summary was that the “New GM” TGW’s had improved by a huge swing over the last couple of years. The first thought that popped into my head was, “well, sure, their customers love the auto bailout, so they would naturally answer more favorably to purposefully skew these results.”
Yes, they listed GM as “New GM.”
Most Americans LOVE not owning one. LOL!
Did you get asked, I didn’t.
You just cannot fix stupid.