We have two trailblazers. I do agree, fuel economy isn't so great on those things. They ride comfortable though.
http://finance.yahoo.com/loans/article/104561/11-Worst-Cars-Consumer-Reports

My buddy has the Hatchback Yaris, neat little car, but it needs some more $$ put into it. But I guess it was built to be affordable.
And if you consider a Yaris, my buddy and I did some researching before he bought it, physical too, and noticed the 2 door hatchback has more interior room than the 4 door. And the rear seats on the hatchback are reclined some while the 4dr seats are more straight up.

Top 10 Best: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/autos/0802/gallery.2008_cr_best_cars/index.html

and ppl wonder why I dont pay attention to CR anymore. It sure seems like the imports are paying off CR for the publicity and defamation of American cars. Either that or CR hires pure and simple retards now.

I gotta admit I was pretty amused by the Dodge Nitro (no pros...only cons)...thats pretty bad.

The Toyota Prius is in the top 10? That's sad.

Anyone here heard of Jeff Dunham? He's a ventriloquist comedian, and he drives a Prius. One of his puppets said that when it drives past, the sound it makes is IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'mgay.

(OK, so you probably need to hear it for it to be really funny...)

The Jeeps are always on their list. They ignore the above-average reliability.

I'm planning to pick up a Trailblazer post-summer and this review isn't stopping me.

lol, consumer reports...

does anyone actully still listen to them?

The nice thing about CR is they don't take in advertising dollars so they don't have to "promote" one product over another do to money.

How ever when it comes to vehicles they don't have a clue. The people who "buy" into CR are those who drive only Toyotas and such so their feedback is biased to begin with. Take the Wrangler for example. One of the 11 worst? Come on everyone knows that vehicle is designed to go off road and get muddy and not as an everyday driver. You can't compare it to say a Prius that is designed to be a DDing commuter. I mean come on look at this quote about the Jeep
"but off-road ability doesn't factor into the final scores." How can you ignore the very thing the vehicle is designed for? That's like taking the Prius and testing it as an offroader and throwing out the on-road test. Just cause people want to drive their wrangler every day doesn't mean it's supposed to. Only good thing abour CR is they aren't afraid to say vehicle X or product Y is junk cause of... But their comparisons can get a bit out of hand. They really should narrow the scope and break things into categories before placing worst/best lists. I mean come on it's like comparing computing power between a highend desktop PC to say my cell phone? Both do the same things only one does some things better then the other but meant for completely different purposes.

Haha, I've seen that. DUN-HAM! .. dot coooom.

homo homo homo when it idles

ROFL! I love that skit.... everything I pass by a Prius I say that line to myself....

Dunham is funny!!!

Some links if your bored:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kXOg23pGeA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67XTB9fytdA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQm_8vX3sYU&feature=related

...and there's more!

Jeff Dunham is my favorite comedian. I just load his two DVDs to a friend at work, and now my friend loves him.

This is one everyone needs to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wskT6YfVB6E&feature=related

One cool thing about Jeff is the cuss words aren't frequent, and he doesn't try to be funny by being insanely offensive to everyone. He's ACTUALLY funny.


Anyway, back on topic now... :p

"I KILL YOU!"

I love Jeff Dunham!

And the GP needs to be on the CR best buy list. What's not to love?

That it's not a RWD 5 speed!

haha jeff dunham is funny...

GP's dont have anything really outstanding about them... that's why they aren't on the CR best buy list...

Actually CR hated on the GP in 97 and 98.