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The cover of the February 1986 issue of Consumer Reports featured a Yugo getting stared down by a Peterbilt truck with the caption "How much car do you get for $3990?" [40] The included review described the car as a "barely assembled bag of nuts and bolts", saying that a used car was a better buy. [40]
The Consumer Reports auto test track in East Haddam, Connecticut. In the July 1978 issue, Consumer Reports rated the Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon automobile "not acceptable", the first car it had judged such since the AMC Ambassador in 1968.
The Truth About Cars (TTAC) is a blog covering automobiles, automotive products and the auto industry, begun in 2002 [1] featuring a mix of automotive reviews, editorials and news. It is home to the annual Ten Worst Automobiles awards, [2] which are nominated and selected by the readers.
Nader counters by pointing out that, at the time, annual (and unnecessary) styling changes added, on average, about $700 to the consumer cost of a new car (equivalent to $6,800 in 2023). This compared to an average expenditure in safety by the automotive companies of about twenty-three cents per car (equivalent to $2.22 in 2023). [5]: p187
Consumer information label for a vehicle with at least one NCAP star rating A New Car Assessment Program (or Programme ) is a government car safety program tasked with evaluating new automobile designs for performance against various safety threats.
Automotive superlatives include attributes such as the smallest, largest, fastest, lightest, best-selling, and so on. This list (except for the firsts section) is limited to automobiles built after World War II, and lists superlatives for earlier vehicles separately.