I was reared to believe in CR as the consumer's friend. That was fifty years ago.

But the CR reviews I have seen for the past score of years or so are clearly heavily biased - to the point where it can reasonably be asked if CR is paid to write the articles that way by vested interests.

Like other hybrid drivers, I did my homework before ever going to a dealership. I know what my hybrid is worth to me - and have an idea of how others value their hybrids.

It is painfully obvious that the author(s) of the article haven't a clue regarding the facts. There are some folktales they used from which incorrect inferences are made. The article would get a cold zero if submitted to my statistics class.

I realize that hybrids may not be for everyone. Those who drive hybrids like a Hummer will, in fact, be hard-pressed to realize financial advantage from them. And from the mileage reports in the CR article, I can only assume that they author(s) did in fact drive the hybrids like Hummers (if, in fact, they even took the trouble to drive them at all).

They certainly never investigated the depreciation or maintenence aspects. These "facts" are out-and-out wrong.

In my journalism classes, it was repeatedly stressed how important is was to verify and then double-check the facts being used in a story. I am a statistician and know of the importance of making correct inferences from data.

Using folklore as fact is not consistent with good journalism. The process of drawing conclusions from it (even if the original data were valid) fails every test of good statistical procedure.

In other words, the article is a pile of manure.

'06 FEH 2WD "Sainte Marie"