Re: Audi A4 & January 1996 Car and Driver

[Eliot Lim <eliot@u.washington.edu>]

On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Joel Cohen wrote:

> For those of you who might be interested, the January 1996 edition of Car
> and Driver rated the Audi A4 one of the ten best cars of the 1996 model
> year.  This is somewhat of a surprise given that the initial review of the
> Audi A4 cliamed the car, in automatic, was a slug.

don't get me started again! you mean you haven't figured out Crap and
Drivel(tm)'s scam by now?  everybody gets to be best, everybody also
gets bashed once in a while except for honda.  that way it keeps
advertisers and subscribers happy.  mucho $$$.  see?  their reviews
are completely useless, regardless of whether it is a good or bad
review.  depending on the direction of the wind, they will either
emphasise a car's good points or bad points and allow that to set the
tone of the review.  they are never consistent on which aspects of
cars are most important, except on cupholders.

i do like their campaign to get rid of speed limits though.


eliot