Consumer Reports Magazine Drops Camry From Recommend List Over Safety Concerns

Consumer Reports magazine has dropped its coveted recommendation of the Toyota Camry family sedan, the best-selling passenger car in America, because of the car's performance in an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash test. The Camry earned a rating of "Poor" in the Institute's "small overlap" crash test. Many cars have fared badly in this new test. In it, a car traveling at 40 miles per hour strikes a crash barrier with just a small part of the front bumper on the driver's side.
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HughJass - 10/30/2013 10:56:02 AM

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Good for Ford and Honda. Was anyone else on the recommended list and subequently removed or does only the Camry warrant an article?

I'd choose the Accord over the Camry easy.

ParadoX - 10/30/2013 11:54:28 AM

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Accord > All, except maybe the Mazda6 diesel.

carsnyc - 10/30/2013 1:22:39 PM

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Couldn't agree more: Accord and 6 are the winners in this segment. And no, this is not about who sells more cars.

MattDarringer - 11/2/2013 6:01:13 PM

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The IIHS invented a test that in the real world does NOT correlate to a significant number of crashes. We have to remember that the IIHS is all about helping the insurance industry increase premiums on consumers. They are NOT consumer oriented but insurance industry oriented. They are not unbiased nor are they impartial. Moreover they use a sample of 1 car which renders their statistics invalid.

People who base their automotive choice on Consumer Report are utter idiots. CR tests everything from enemas to cars so how can they be experts on everything?