Consumer Reports

I was listening to the radio the other day. A guy from Consumer Reports magazine was on praising the latest, greatest Honda. It got me thinking about my dislike for that rag and the grief it’s caused me over the years. In the days before the Internet, Consumer Reports was the magic talisman of choice customers would throw up to you like a priest holding off a vampire with a cross.

American made cars can’t get a break in Consumer Reports. Now I realize that much of this bad press justified, but I believe the magazine is still trying to punish Detroit for the quality sins of the 60ʼs and 70ʼs. Like the reverberating echoes of the Big Bang, they can’t let go of the memories of Ford Pintos and Chevy Vegas.

If you’re a past reader of this blog, you know how much I dislike propeller heads, who just happen to be the prime readers of Consumer Reports. The magazine is an integral part of their smoke free, global warming, Democrat voting, Birkenstock wearing life style. Reading negative articles about domestic cars plays right into their self-loathing opinion of America in general, and their distaste for American industry as a whole.

What’s this got to do with cars? Everything. It’s a fact that Japanese cars are generally better than American cars, but to continually try to compare the two is fruitless. By constantly touting Japanese cars, Consumer Reports is doing nothing but catering to their target audience. These people wouldn’t buy an American car anyway, so it’s no use trying to find the best America has to offer.

It’s like a guy with one beautiful daughter and four ugly ones. The ugly ones might never be judged on their own merits because the beautiful one gets the constant attention.

In my opinion Consumer Reports should review American cars exclusively. Give the Japanese favorites a Mulligan and try to do something productive for the shrinking American piece of the automotive pie. Heck, given the wide range of performance and quality of Detroit’s finest makes them hell of a lot more interesting to write about than what’s better an Accord or a Camry.

Now the paranoid part of me wants to think that all of this dumping on Detroit has something to do with the “one world, no borders” insanity being thrown around by the Liberals. Shitty quality or not, there might come a time when we will have to protect ourselves from an outside world that has little or no environmental protection in their countries and workers that paid only slightly above slave wages.

America first, I say. And if you have to replace the transmission in that Dodge at 60,000 so be it!


Talk to you later,



David