>They had a firewall between themselves and the manufacturers of products they review. They would buy cars themselves, then review them instead of getting a "pe

>They had a firewall between themselves and the manufacturers of products they review. They would buy cars themselves, then review them instead of getting a "perfect" car loaned and managed by the company that created it. This is still very much the case for all the products they test, cars or otherwise. According to people I know who work there, they don't even order products to their office, lest a company sees the address and ships a superior product.