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For decades the most prominent CR criterion for car reviews was whether a folded wheelchair would fit in the trunk.
by bt848 7y ago
For decades the most prominent CR criterion for car reviews was whether a folded wheelchair would fit in the trunk.
- justin66 7y agoThe trunk space measure for Car and Driver and other assorted car magazines, at least when it came to sports cars and compacts, was always golf clubs. I've never played and, as a reader, I always wondered what the hell the significance of golf clubs was. The wheelchair metric seems a little more practical. My mother will soon have bought three cars using that as a filter. Or perhaps there's a built in assumption that any car capable of carrying a wheelchair can also carry golf clubs, I don't know.
- Paperweight 7y agoCR and the BBB are cancer. They're worse than irrelevant - they are products of the bygone age of post-war high-trust production. The field is very very ripe for disruption, but bias and conflicting interests are a tough nut to crack.
- dehrmann 7y agoLook at The Wirecutter as an example of some amount of disruption in that space. And they're almost up-front about how they keep the gray lady happy.
- Paperweight 7y agoInteresting. I had assumed they were one of the 1000s of other fake review websites. Another good one I found is carsurvey.org, but I'm not sure how it'll hold up when (if not already) the marketing departments of car manufacturers swarm it.
- dahinds 7y agowhich decades were those, specifically?