Consumer Reports

[John Varela]

The new issue of Consumer Reports arrived in today's mail.

Splashed across the cover are the words, "100 Top Products", and right
below those words is a photo of a Forester. Inside, it rates the
Forester 2.5 XT as the top Small SUV, and the Forester with manual
transmission as the best Small SUV for fuel economy.

 

[bigjimpack]

Consumer Reports is not the best source for auto ratings after they
did the smeraing of the Isuzu Trooper which was rated by them as
reliable as the Land Cruiser- the gold standard of SUV's. Having
owned a Trooper (and wishing I could have bought another) I am not
always in agreement with CR.

 

[adventuremyk]

The new issue of Consumer Reports arrived in today's mail.

Splashed across the cover are the words, "100 Top Products", and right
below those words is a photo of a Forester. Inside, it rates the
Forester 2.5 XT as the top Small SUV, and the Forester with manual
transmission as the best Small SUV for fuel economy.

Don't get me wrong. I really enjoy the Subaru's and wouldn't mind
having a Forester to carry the camping/kayak gear and an STi for the
fun weekender, but leave them to rating things they can handle.
Toasters, maybe TV's. I have never found them to have much worthwhile
to say on cars.