CR/MSN - Top 10 Family Vehicles for Holiday Travel

[AndrewGS]

http://autos.msn.com/advice/CRArt.as...24522&GT1=8825

Millions will travel the roads during the holiday season, including families looking for safe, reliable transportation. If your plans for the coming year include extended travel, one gift the whole family might enjoy is a new vehicle.

Consumer Reports auto experts compiled a list of 10 suggestions for families. It includes models that have done well in safety tests, in our reliability ratings, and that we've found to be comfortable, quiet, and spacious during our testing. Seats that are comfortable and provide enough support for a long drive were a prerequisite to make our list. Enough room to keep Mom, Dad, and the kids in a festive spirit was also required, especially since journeys this time of year often include the traditional holiday traffic jam.

[AndrewGS]

Of ten cars one (1) is domestic. The Cadillac CTS?

[GMsElite]

The Caddy SRX should have been on there before the Lexus RX IMO.

[CBECK]

Where's the Tahoe or Suburban?

[lhanse08]

Consumber REports is the most unreliable magazine for car shoppers. It is NOT a car magazine people!!!!!! Get over thinking CR is the bible for the car industry. Of course they say nothing about the avalon and the huge quality problems the car is having. Customers are literally going to dealerships and having the service take their keys to their highly rated consumer reports recommended car, becasue of the problems they are having.

I honestly can say I receive CR and the reports on the american cars are bias, anti american, and flat wrong.

[montrealvue]

CR seems to miss the point on a few....my impression of American cars is that most are better "highway cars". Putting the "rock hard seat Accord" on the list makes little sense to me. An Impala is definitely a better car to travel in. CR is letting THEIR reliability ratings bias their opinon here.

[ByTheLake]

Top 10 Family Vehicles for Holiday Travel? I don't get it.

How much "holiday travel" does the average family do? Should they make a vehicle purchase decision based on what travel they do during the holidays?

What next? Top 10 Vehicles for Arbor Day?

[91 s-10baja]

CTS? did they forget that holiday travel often encounters snow? I did over the mountain pass coming back from eastern WA, and my car did horrible! I was all kinds of white knuckling it. My rear end was all over the place.................uh, the car was!

[jon21]

Originally Posted by 91 s-10baja

CTS? did they forget that holiday travel often encounters snow? I did over the mountain pass coming back from eastern WA, and my car did horrible! I was all kinds of white knuckling it. My rear end was all over the place.................uh, the car was!

I don't think you will encounter much snow on these holidays:

July 4th, Easter, Memorial, Labor, Thanksgiving (maybe)...........Christmas (no snow in Texas), New Year (no snow in Texas)

[adplusone]

I doubt my wife, myself, two college aged sons and a ten year old would fit in any of the vehicles mentioned.

Sububran rules for any of our (Texas) road trips...room for the entire family and our luggage. And lets not forget in-flight entertainment with Xbox games and DVD movies.

Quoting CR here....including families looking for safe, reliable transportation. Have owned 10 Suburbans...rock steady realible and I would take my 2007 in a head on collision with any of the vehicles that CD loves.

And with 14.5 MPG on the highway x five folks = thats 72.5 people miles per gallon. Compare that to most vehicles on the road today.

Like A Rock (God I miss that advertising).

[fp115]

Oh come on. Those aren't cars I would take for holiday travel. For the most part you will find Vans, SUVs and some people in cars. People won't typically take a CTS, Audi,.. not only are they not exactly made for long holiday travels but the price on them is maybe a little too steep for the typical family.

[chad4835]

They missed the 07 Yukon! Picked ours up over the holidays and it fit all the parameters they listed nicely. It is awesome!

[Dave B]

I'm staying home - since nothing I have is on the list.......wait, that came from CR - then I'm going anyway.

They are so biased, and the sad thing is that people will read that excrement and run out and buy whatever they say, with NO THOUGHT whatsoever.

Dave

[SaabKing]

Originally Posted by montrealvue

CR seems to miss the point on a few....my impression of American cars is that most are better "highway cars". Putting the "rock hard seat Accord" on the list makes little sense to me.

Not only the rock hard seats, but the rock hard bushings they put in the suspension. Even a nice new set of Michelin's and they still have a lot of road noise. I haven't seen the C&D review yet but was there a decibel rating on the Aura vrs Accord/Camry?

[CaymanS]

Although the list seems a little odd indeed, the problem that you guys have is whenever GM accomplishes something, you guys are as ecstatic as hell. However, whenever you see the imports reign an award or two, you guys blame the magazine calling it biased. It wasn't the case back in the days but the imports are catching up and this bashing has to stop somewhere. I agree though about the purpose of this list. We don't need to know about it and most of them are sedans, the most cramped compared to minivans and SUVs which seem scarce in the list. I dislike Consumer Reports too but please read what I've stated above.