I was given a bunch of old Consumer's Reports magazines for the labor of removing them from a basement at an Estate sale. However, the oldest were from about 1979.
I'd be interested in knowing how they rated some of the better known sets; RCA, Zenith, etc. (maybe you could scan???)
I personally find their reviews of more complicated products to be a bunch of biased BS! These guys rated the first '78 Dodge Omni as "unsafe" because if you swung the wheel back and forth repeatedly at speed you could spinout! Funny, they never changed a damn thing about that design in 12-years of building them, yet no one else ever mentioned this problem (and they stopped soon afterwards) Also never mentioned that problem with the VW Rabbit which was an almost identical design (with the same engine)!
Most likely the team of East-coast-socialist toaster & toilet testers had never driven a transverse powertrain FWD car, and decided to gain some cheap publicity with this idiotic "test".
They do a lot of other wierd stuff too, like very different ratings for cars with identical platforms, but different names & trim. Wonder if they do it with TVs too?
