[Thorin]

Consumer Reports is staffed by America-hating traitors who have always acted as shills for the Japanese.

[riverdawg]

"Consumer Reports is staffed by ... traitors who have always acted as shills for the Japanese."

In the 1980's, Consumer Reports was very slow to jump on the Japanese bandwagon. Maybe now they are equally slow to acknowledge a narrowing gap between the quality of Japanese and U.S. nameplates. (I won't repeat the obvious fact, highlighted in other posts, that the once-bright line delineating the "origins" of U.S. and Japanese autos has been almost completely obliterated - hence the word "nameplates.")

My first Japanese-built car was a 1980 Honda Accord sedan. The U.S.-built alternatives at the time included the GM X-cars and the Ford Fairmont ...