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Are you wondering from the same chart, what's going on at Toyota?
My guess is that your answer to that question is the same as mine.
I'm a big believer in keeping things written as fact, factual, since we all know, once something's in print, it's fact forever.
Back to the original post--at CR, there is a difference between not "Recommended", and "Not Recommended".
I'm guessing your red-eyed regarding the Malibu numbers!;)
The Ford/Toyota numbers are interesting - I think people like the handing on the C-Max and the rest better than the Toyotas.
I'm going to have check the C-Max with a test drive some day. The sales tried to make me look at the C-Max instead of the Fusion I was stopping in to see. They must have had a salesman double bonus day if they sold a C-Max. LOL
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
And in other news, the "Hellcat" is on the prowl...
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/23/dodge-challenger-spy-shots-supercharged-hellc- at-hemi-v8/
The Chally has always been my favorite of the "Retro" phase.
Just my .02
Fiat 2.0?
But everything else from Hole Shots at the strip to cruising the Boulevard, and anything in between, the Pony Cars are cool and the Chally is still the looker of the bunch with the Mustang a close second (Ford paint quality is inconsistent IMO). I wouldn't be caught dead in a Camaro, I don't have a mullet nor a penchant for 80's hair metal and bimbos...
Well, maybe a '67.
When my buddies wanted a new Camaro, I wanted a Malibu Classic or Caprice coupe (the latter, '77 and later).
Would I need a 'taster' first? LOL
I really never get there, although my niece and family live in Westville, but that's southern NJ.
Again, very big of you. Thanks.
Some pretty hallowed ground, afaic!
Excellent job, Chevy!
I bet it's possible some of the A and B stuff isn't made in China or Mexico. Not that where it's made means everything, because Sony can make TV's with extremely good quality and bad quality all in one country.
Did you get one of Sony's higher lines of Televisions?
Perhaps, just perhaps, CR was right and for most of those years the Asian makes were better and the US makes were worse. And perhaps now things are much more equal.
But, brand loyalty is alive and well on this thread.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
I buck that trend. It's been 20 years since I've purchased two vehicles in a row from the same manufacturer. I guess I'm a bit odd in the fact I like change and variety. It's part of the reason I don't like keeping things particularly long. I tend to get tired of them and want something different.
If my Ram turns out to be a POC it won't bother me that much. I'll just get rid of it and buy something else.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
'Lemmings' buy whatever a magazine tells them to, or whatever is popular at the moment.
I paid $9,900 new for a car that has given excellent service over 5 1/2 years (not even a battery yet), and $19K for a car I still enjoy just looking at in the garage. No car payments. Excellent dealer service. My two used cars--paid $6,930 for a two-year old Mopar product that has given reliable service, and $5,500 for a four-year-old Cobalt that looks and drives excellently--$5,500.
Could I have gotten the above from a foreign maker? I really don't think so. And the dealer service would have been a question mark. Why gamble on something so expensive?
I have to call BS so often on a couple of forums here, it's sad. Some folks are just so wrong, and unable to admit so. Others just lie ("I saw ten Chevrolets on the side of the road on the way to work this morning".)
Also, BTW, new, large, Nissan recall today.
I'm not avoiding posting domestic recalls; it's just that the Japanese and Koreans have had so many more lately:
http://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2013-14-nissan-pathfinder-among-nissan-vehicles-- - - - - - - - recalled-for-brake-problem.html
That is the definition of balance and accuracy.
My good friend has a Benz (an '05 big sedan, "4MATIC" on the trunklid, $95K new he said although he bought used--my brain is still conditioned to think of model names instead of numbers!) which he likes and went to look at a 2012 C120 I think (I wrote it down but can't find the note now). He said that car stickered at $120K!!!! Is that right, or is he mistaken? And....the Benz dealer's asking price is $62,500.
As a numbers guy and a cheapskate, I was absolutely astounded at that.
They offered him $6K for his 2005 so he told them to pound salt.
There is a benefit to driving vehicles that many consider undesirable.
Right now, the goal is to put daughter #1 through Miami U. with no financial aid of any kind and no loans on ours or her part. So far, so good.
Don't get me going on collegiate athletes getting scholarships! I always wonder how many other better students get looked over for athletes.
Ford makes $1.3 billion in quarter (Detroit Free Press)
Scuttlebutt on the street is that dealers suffered in October, especially in areas with heavy government or military presence.
Huh - wonder if the dealers in Colorado Springs had a bad October, seeing as how there is a major Army base, a couple of Air Force bases and the Air Force Academy in town.
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At the register while shopping for books at the BarnesNoble OSU authorized bookstore, I noticed a pad listing the various athletic scholarship recipients who were to get their books, and supplies, free. Besides food, dorm, expense money for living necessities, everything is special. While the other students have to pay for their books, shampoo, etc., even on an academic scholarship.
I wondered if that included tattoes as living expenses for the football team a while back. :grin Relevant is that the benefits did include special deals on cars from some car folks around Columbus.
On the other hand, while going through the front doors to B&N, we passed a young man leaving and after we passed him my son said that he was on the basketball team and very unpretentious, normal guy. My son had been in a class with him or had contact somehow. Think the name was Cable or Coble?
If the money that goes into college athletics went into the equpment, facilities, and staff, the economy would be a whole lot better for the results from the research allowed by the extra funding.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
CR never liked the Lexus IS, I don't think that model ever was rated at the top of that class.
And they've had it out for Lexus for a while - when the Lexus GX skidded in their tests they smacked a huge "DO NOT BUY" rating on it and called it unsafe, yet the Jeep Grand Cherokee "hopped and skidded sideways" and they gave Chrysler a break, and never put that label on it.
The two most senior auto editors drive a Durango Hemi and a BMW X5. Their top rated car is American (Tesla).
This anti-Japanese bias must stop!