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frontpagecomprx posted Nov 21, 2023 2:10 PM
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Consumer Reports has 1-Year Consumer Reports Magazine on sale for $12.
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Consumer Reports has 1-Year Consumer Reports Magazine on sale for $12.
Thanks to Community Member comprx for sharing this deal
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- This Subscription Automatically Renews for the rate then in effect. (currently 1 year for $20) Cancel anytime at cr.org/account or by calling 800-333-0663.
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Except it didn't. Consumer Reports fabricated testing because one of their employees (who was related to one of their high up execs) got into an accident with one.
Consumer Reports tested the Samurai with their normal set of tests and it did awesome. Great safety rating.
So they kept changing the course with more severe swerves until they finally created a situation where any typical car should tip.
But it still wouldn't tip.
The exec demanded that no one leave until they had footage of that car tipping.
So they went faster and faster until 47 times later they got the wheels to come off the ground. They released the video of that without audio. (In the lawsuit years later, the video with audio came out, and the execs can be heard celebrating in the video that they finally got it to tip.)
Once they created the footage, they released a public statement saying the Samurai was unsafe to drive. Everyone believed them, and Suzuki sales tanked in the U.S. (And never recovered.)
And to this day, people still think Suzuki had a rollover problem.
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Just guessing because CR auto-renews.
Not sure if I will sign up for this or not, but will use a privacy one time use CC from Privacy.
The first, (which most libraries have) is the CR database (consumerreports.org) which has products and CR ratings and short reviews of them. The second is the digital version of the magazine, which is not as common with libraries.
The magazine provides excellent articles for consumers that the database does not. If your library doesn't offer the digital magazine, you either have to go there and read the hard copy, or subscribe to a print edition deal rate (like this deal or the recent discountmags,com deal), as I did and recommend.
I like the printed magazine for ease and pleasure of reading for easy access without need for tablet, cell phone, or computer.
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Except it didn't. Consumer Reports fabricated testing because one of their employees (who was related to one of their high up execs) got into an accident with one.
Consumer Reports tested the Samurai with their normal set of tests and it did awesome. Great safety rating.
So they kept changing the course with more severe swerves until they finally created a situation where any typical car should tip.
But it still wouldn't tip.
The exec demanded that no one leave until they had footage of that car tipping.
So they went faster and faster until 47 times later they got the wheels to come off the ground. They released the video of that without audio. (In the lawsuit years later, the video with audio came out, and the execs can be heard celebrating in the video that they finally got it to tip.)
Once they created the footage, they released a public statement saying the Samurai was unsafe to drive. Everyone believed them, and Suzuki sales tanked in the U.S. (And never recovered.)
And to this day, people still think Suzuki had a rollover problem.
Except it didn't. Consumer Reports fabricated testing because one of their employees (who was related to one of their high up execs) got into an accident with one.
Consumer Reports tested the Samurai with their normal set of tests and it did awesome. Great safety rating.
So they kept changing the course with more severe swerves until they finally created a situation where any typical car should tip.
But it still wouldn't tip.
The exec demanded that no one leave until they had footage of that car tipping.
So they went faster and faster until 47 times later they got the wheels to come off the ground. They released the video of that without audio. (In the lawsuit years later, the video with audio came out, and the execs can be heard celebrating in the video that they finally got it to tip.)
Once they created the footage, they released a public statement saying the Samurai was unsafe to drive. Everyone believed them, and Suzuki sales tanked in the U.S. (And never recovered.)
And to this day, people still think Suzuki had a rollover problem.
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