Consumer Reports has produced a list of cars that are best and most poorly suited to tall and short drivers. If you fall into either camp, you may want to read on. To analyze whether a vehicle is good for a tall or short driver, or both, Consumer Reports tested vehicles for seat comfort, driving […]
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Our buying decisions are often shaped by how a vehicle looks on the outside, when how the world looks from the inside of a car or SUV is arguably far more important. Carmakers can load up their vehicles with hundreds of electronic safety features but if you can’t see past roof pillars the size of an […]
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Consumer Reports has raised serious safety concerns about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta that is currently being tested by owners on public roads. For quite some time, Tesla has allowed select owners to install and test its advanced driver-assistance system and recently, the Full Self-Driving beta 9 system was released. Beta testing is far from a […]
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One of Tesla’s best sellers, the Model 3, is losing its safety designations from two testing organizations. Accordingly, the Model 3 will no longer be considered a CR Top Pick, while the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety plans to remove the Model 3’s Top Safety Pick+ designation. It’s the result of a bold decision to […]
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Eyebrows were raised earlier this week when police in Texas suggested a Tesla Model S was involved in a fatal crash with no one behind the wheel. While the investigation is ongoing, the nature of the incident suggested autonomous driving technology could have been involved. Elon Musk disputed this as he tweeted the car was […]
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Destination fees have actually been getting more and more coverage lately, which is why it surprised even me – someone forced to look at destination fees across the industry with some frequency, to discover that they’re increasing so quickly.. A recent Consumer Reports study finds that destination fees across the industry have risen more than […]
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Privacy concerns have been raised about the in-car cameras used on certain Tesla vehicles that record and transmit footage of drivers and passengers. Consumer Reports notes that the driver-facing camera located in the rearview mirror of the Model 3 and Model Y is turned off by default, but if enabled, will capture and share video […]
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Consumer Reports has released their list of the “most and least liked car brands.” The ranking are based on their 2020 Annual Auto Surveys, which examined 369,000 vehicles and asked owners whether or not they’d buy the same car again. While that sounds simple enough, the so-called “Would Buy Again score” also factors in price, […]
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Mazda has surpassed all of its rivals in being named the most reliable automaker by Consumer Reports this year. Each and every year, Consumer Reports asks its members about problems they have had with their vehicles in the past 12 months. For 2020, the outlet received responses on roughly 329,000 vehicles, built from the 2000-2020 […]
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A new study by Consumer Reports found that existing active safety technologies could lower road deaths by 50% if they would be available as standard on all new vehicles. According to the study, up to 20,000 lives could be saved each year, but instead, carmakers are making customers pay extra for features that can ultimately […]
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