AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Your inside track for new and used vehicles.(Autos)(Buyers guide)

Consumer Reports Annual Buying Guide

| January 01, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

This 80-page section is structured to be your all-in-one guide to buying a vehicle. Starting off on page 132, we detail the 5 Steps to Get the Right Car and Best Price. Buying a car can be thrilling and terrifying at the same time, but following these five easy steps can take the advantage out of the salesperson's hands and put you in charge of the buying and negotiating process.

Turn to page 142 to see which vehicles, among the 246 we recently tested, did best and worst in our Ratings. Here you can see how each ranks among its competitors in overall test score, real-world fuel economy, Ratings for predicted reliability, accident avoidance, and crash tests.

The vehicle profiles, starting on page 153, are our summary reviews of 253 vehicles, including our recommendations and Predicted Reliability Ratings.

Consumers considering a used vehicle should turn to the Best and Worst Used Cars, on page 178. You'll find our CR Good Bets, models that have performed well in our road tests and reliability surveys, as well as the CR Bad Bets, vehicles with poor reliability that you should avoid.

We close the section with our Reliability History charts, starting on page 184. These charts are based on responses from our 2006 annual survey, when we ask our approximately six million magazine and Web site subscribers about any serious problems they have had with their vehicles in the preceding 12 months.

This edition's reliability data are based on about 1.3 million vehicles. They provide you with information on 250 vehicles, showing you how models from 2001 through 2006 are holding up in 16 trouble spots. These are comprehensive reliability data you can't get from other publications.

5 STEPS TO GET THE RIGHT CAR AND THE BEST PRICE

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Good car, bad car ..LD: JEREMY Clarkson finds the right car for your kind of...
News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire April 4, 2004 700+ words
(From New Straits Times (Malaysia)) JEREMY Clarkson finds the right car for your kind of life, selecting four of the best vehicles in each of 12 classes - plus he nails the worst in each class. FAMILY HOLDALLS 1st Volvo...
New Car Showroom selects right(?) car. (Database Review)
Magazine article from: Information Today O'Leary, Mick October 1, 1991 700+ words
New Car Showroom Selects Right(?) Car You hear a lot about how online...a database of new consumer vehicle specs. It is produced by Access...light truck, and multipurpose vehicle that is widely sold in the...and options packages for each vehicle. Base vehicle price, destination...
Advice On Finding the Right Car for Your Family/Call-In, CNNfn.
News wire article from: Finance Wire November 7, 2003 700+ words
...segment, finding the right car for you and your family...these hybrid electric vehicles, since they`ve only...to me, but as these vehicles have more time on the...hybrids. They are the vehicle of choice if you`re...a general sense, a vehicle as reliable as a Lexus...
What's the Right Car?(automobile rating report)(Product/service evaluation)
Magazine article from: AutoWeek September 4, 2006 700+ words
...face the same concerns as all other parents: What's the right car? First, carefully consider whether you want your new driver...considerations. This myth we have about the safety of the vehicle-I would never recommend a new car for a new driver. When...
MEMO PAD: THE RIGHT CAR...YES, THEN NO...SAME OLD GIRL.(LTB Media's Alexandra...
Magazine article from: WWD Carmon, Irin Smith, Stephanie D. Wicks, Amy March 13, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Irin Carmon, Stephanie D. Smith, Amy Wicks THE RIGHT CAR: Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter, recently anointed...will, in a few months, finally align his politics and his vehicle. A spokeswoman for the magazine said come June, Carter will...
What to look for when choosing the right car.
News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire October 13, 2004 700+ words
...through another high vehicle. * Weight and...The more your vehicles weighs, the less...passengers in a multi-vehicle crash. Longer vehicles tend to have longer...period of time. * Vehicle Construction...assess, but some vehicles have advanced...
5 Steps to get the right car and best price.
Magazine article from: Consumer Reports November 1, 2006 700+ words
...all of our test vehicles from dealerships...evaluations on each vehicle over several months...than one million vehicles, the most ever...figures printed on a vehicle's window sticker...accurate figure for vehicles that we tested by referring to the Vehicle Ratings chart...
5 steps to get the right car and best price.(Autos)
Magazine article from: Consumer Reports Annual Buying Guide January 1, 2006 700+ words
...as advertising. VEHICLE RATINGS CONSUMER...hone your list of vehicles by giving you a...than one million vehicles, the most ever...figures printed on a vehicle's window sticker...accurate figure for vehicles that we tested by referring to the Vehicle Ratings chart...
the price is right?(car auctions )
Magazine article from: Commercial Motor April 20, 2006 700+ words
...exchanging commercial vehicles. British Car Auctions...established commercial vehicle dealer. There are shiny new vehicles on the forecourt...Royal Mail national vehicle sales manager Annessa...issue with too many vehicles in poor condition...
Car thieves have old ideas about what models are right. (car thieves choose...
Magazine article from: Business First of Buffalo Sullivan, Barbara September 22, 1997 700+ words
...Crime Bureau. Nationwide, a vehicle is stolen every 20 seconds...late-model sports utility vehicles like Blazers and Broncos are...for a car owner to report a vehicle stolen and collect on the insurance...Delano: "If he wants your vehicle, he's going to get it...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA