http://http://money.cnn.com/gallerie...ars/index.html

11 worst cars by consumer reports...

Score: 17 (out of 100)
Highs: Off-road ability
Lows: Ride, handling, braking, noise, fuel economy, fit and finish, visibility, frontseat comfort, access, reliability
Consumer Reports performs off-road testing at its Connecticut proving grounds, but off-road ability doesn't factor into the final scores.
That's part of the reason the Wrangler Unlimited gets the lowest score of any vehicle the magazine currently rates.

"We're rating these cars as most people would drive them in the SUV category," said Jake Fisher, a Consumer Reports auto test engineer.

While Jeep boasts that it sells to more owners who actually drive off-road than any other brand, the majority still spend most of their time on pavement.

A spokeswoman for Chrysler pointed out that the Jeep and Dodge vehicles in this list were fundamentally engineered for heavy-duty off-road use and the Jeeps, in particular, have been rated highly by other publications.

 

They're just jealous!!!!

 

Consumer Reports does a nice job of rating appliances... you know, dishwashers, stoves, blenders, Toyotas, Hondas... but when it comes to purpose-built vehicles, they almost always miss the point.

 

Here's the link, idk for some reason it didn't pop up when I clicked yours

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/...ars/index.html

 

<<We're rating these cars as most people would drive them in the SUV category," said Jake Fisher, a Consumer Reports auto test engineer>>

While this is a true comment this statement ignores the reason why the target demographic purchases a jeep. We buy them so that we can spend the rest of our money mod'ing them

 

Like the point that if you tried to take the doors off your Trailblazer and drive around you'd probably get arrested, Not to mention I've heard through the grapevine that Explorers suck in the mud.

 

They actually liked the Porsche Boxster and the Miata over the BMW M Roadster. Wimps. I think they value "value" over performance in almost all reviews though.

 

So our JKs make crappy cars? Duh! The weasly caveat "we don't include off road ability in our ratings" is a complete copout. Any moron knows a vehicle should be evaluated on its design, not some artificial construct. It would be like evaluating Rambo on his ability to set a table.

 

wow 4 out of the 11 were Chrysler products. When I bought my JK everyone warned me not to byt a Chrysler product. I sure hope they were wrong.

 

And if you look at their "top ten cars", all the "great cars" are all pretty generic wide swaths of public acceptance. Great, you guys like a car that looks like the other 95% of the driving public.

I'm not going to get wound up by a magazine geared towards people who need a generic magazine to justify buying a generic car. Let them have their mall creepers (can't even call 'em crawlers).