Posted on 03/21/2011 7:59:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I understand that three years have passed between the Sebring he loved and the 200 he hated. How has the Sebring evolved (I’d hesitate to use the phrase “intelligent” design considering the state of American cars) in the past couple years?
Did he love the ‘08, was indifferent on the ‘09, hated the ‘10 and by the time the ‘11 200 came out lose his temper? Did he just wake up on the wrong side of the bed?
Maybe he’s just a bad critic; I don’t know, I haven’t read the guy’s stuff. Either way, he is (was) paid to give his opinion, which he did. Agree or disagree with what he wrote, it’s up to you, but I find it hard to fault the man for resigning after his editor rolled over to placate advertisers.
It appears Scott Burgess writes his reviews (positive or negative) based on the audience, advertisers and editors....not based on his opinion.
If that is true, he has no credibility as a reviewer and should be branded as a fraud.
For example, Consumer Reports does its reliability study based on subsribers voluntarily sending in comment cards. Some vehicles get hundreds of responses while others get less than 10.....and Consumer Reports does not tell you the sample size it is based upon. They also do not define a "defect". One person may call a blown fuse a "defect" while others may ignore it.
My bottom line here is that, just like the MSM reporting on political events, you have to always be aware of the fraud, corruption and lack of ethics in EVERYTHING today!
Scott Burgess is a fraud. He doesn't really care that the editor changed his article. He saw it as an opportunity to make a name for himself.
Well, honestly, I had a Mercury Sable (great car, but taken out at an intersection due to a jaywalking pedestrian), and I currently drive a Mercury Grand Marquis. I have enjoyed both of them. Good relative gas mileage (so long as I didn’t horse them), and comfortable. They were both used when I bought them, and had the little “fit & finish” issues, but for the most part they’ve been rock solid for me. I am looking forward to something a bit more economical to drive for my next car, but will miss my GM when it’s gone. This is why I am thinking Used Ford, as my experiences with the Merc’s have been so good...
Saturn aka later cars = Opel
Which was fine since, even though GM was hard at work screwing up the line, the service and sales people were phenominal. My first one, a 1992 SL2, was a 98.7% all American construct and I drove the hell out of that car, it still ran like a top when I gave it to the Salvation Army with 216,000 miles on it.
I bought my VUE in the first year issue, a usual no-no for me, specifically because I knew that if there were kinks to be worked out of the platform, the dealer network would move mountains to make me happy. Now that a Chevy dealer has taken over my dealership, it's like visiting the dentist (actually, worse, I like my dentist) to go there. Last trip, I ended up stranded at a grocery store I stopped at afterwards. I called with a "WTH" query on why the car was totally dead. They opined that maybe the battery was low, they'd left the doors open (and radio on I'd posit) and that I could "get a tow back and buy a battery". I was beginning to brew up, but I got a ride to my house, got a jumpstarter, started it, and got a battery at NAPA just as it was closing only to find that APPARENTLY they had losened the terminals while it was getting serviced. It's the only thing I could think of.
Oh, and also, after GM took the place over, after having a 2 car service visit, the following weekend both cars were "entered" while locked and my metal detector was stolen from the VUE, and on that and my wifes Sky the doors were both open in the morning, no forced entry, leading me to the conclusion that one of the new techs had added an additional keyless remote entry tag to our cars computers...
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