Posted on 04/12/2010 8:05:57 AM PDT by throwback
This is Consumer Reports. Their data are worthless.
Wonder if this bumper sticker would be understood:
“If you bought a GM car, you owe me money.”
I dislike them for their overt pushing of anything “green”.
Their reports on health care topics seem strongly in favor of the Statist solution to everything.
The chinese SUV is probably made of poison, gives off poison fumes, and contains portable drive worm .exe’s.
But seriously, the smart car’s frame being lower than so many other frames is the reason that I would not ever get in such a car. That and the fact that I can fit in it. It’s a clown car, and I am 6’4” 260 lbs WTH are they thinking making something like this ?!
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (www.iihs.org) also does a good job of testing cars. IMO.
“the test criteria is skewed towards fuel economy and safety crash tests”
Two I don’t coinsider!
Your Goldwing is likely safer since it can accelerate AND stop faster: two things that can help AVOID a crash in the 1st place... The smart car is neither “smart” ,nor safe.Ever seen a “smart” car trying to merge into highway speed traffic? (0-60 can be timed with a calendar)
Even the leftist-leaning Consumer Reports ripped it.
I consider them but utility heads the list. I require a vehicle do more than get me down the road. Hence my old ‘91 F-150 with 150,000 miles that isn’t pretty and doesn’t get great mileage but does things an econo box can’t.
Not necessarily the exact frame, but the same frame type or design opposed to the unique frame and running gear of the original hummer. Much of the running gear however at least on the H2 is the same as on the Suburban and that’s logical.
Gm is simply using what they have in stock rather than manufacturing new and much more complicated and expensive running gear.
GM is trading on the name of the Hummer without providing the same value. Like Ford, they use common parts along the entire corporation whereever possible.
Ford, uses the same running gear for the fuill size Fords, Mercurys, or Lincoln Town cars.
Gm got caught several years ago substituting a Chevy engine instead of ‘Rocket 88’ engines in their Oldsmobiles and lost an expensive lawsuit which required them to replace the engines or give the owners a cash settlement.
I have nothing against the older full size Suburbans, they were very well built. With today’s downsizing, they simply can’t safely handle the asme loads as they were formerly capable of.
Considering the cost of a new Suburban, it is much more effective buying a good used one with a well maintained body and then bolting on readily available replacement parts as necessary.
It makes sence to buy a used vehicle with a good body and then take care of it rather than spending on an entirely new vehicle. Consumables get consumed whether on a new or used vehicle and as long as the body is sound, one can keep the vehicle in good running condition as long as the body stands up.
The vehicle’s body can be more important than it’s normally consumable and replacable parts such as tires, shocks, brakes, etc because once the body goes, it becomes very expensive to keep repairing it. Once the rust starts, it is too late to avoid further rusting.
Northern cars suffer much more rust damage than southern cars. Shortly after I moved down to Florida from Illinois, I had to take my car which I had up north to the repair shop. The repair guy immediately told me he knew that it was a northern car by the amount of rust under the body and on all the running gear.
A comparable car that stayed in Florida would have been mostly rust free, especially in central Florida as opposed to the coasts.
i’ll keep my 65 Chevy PU and drive it until the day I die!
It’s only got 1.4 million miles on it and has a long way to go.
LOL! Sounds like a keeper.
No smog tests, no seat belts, and I can cruise comfortably at 90+ all day long.
Almost any repairs can be made with the tools on the truck which is almost never!
Here ya go....
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/10/05/consumer-reports-tosses-political-neutrality-away-pro-obamacare-ad
I was rear-ended by an older Dodge Neon last year while stopped in Bloomington Indiana (IU hometown) and the girl who hit me had a couple of Obama stickers still on her car. She managed to hit me directly on my Free Republic bumper sticker, which I kind of found funny because they had to tow her car away and as you can see I didn't bother to fix mine, in fact she didn't even tear my bumper sticker.
(1) There is almost always an emotional component in every car purchase. Car purchases are endlessly rationalized.
(2) Objective information on which to base a car purchase is hard to come by. Every time I read a car review I look for the writer's hot buttons, which often don't match mine.
(3) Consumers Union undeniably leans left and their evaluation criteria don't match mine.
(4) Your mileage may vary. I've had horrible experiences with GM products. Some of my friends have had great experiences with GM cars. I buy Toyota, they buy GM.
There is a huge difference between the handling of the H2’s and the Suburbans. Suburbans handle like pigs, to be blunt. I was stunned, and so were all my friends, at how nimble the H2 was. And the ride itself...I don’t know what made it so smooth, but it was fantastic. I can’t speak highly enough of it. Long distance road trips...meaning over 500 miles one way...WOW. At 80 mph on the interstate, it was a dream to drive.
GM..imagine cars made by the Post Office.
Go to the dealer and have them replaced for what idiot ignorant doofuses don't have a clue about...
Is that a bumper sticker? Should be. Up there with “Imagine world peas”.
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