drbob said:
The new CAR & DRIVER issue came in the mail today. There is a review of the SKY. They took a nice yellow (perfect color) one and put it through it's paces. Unfortunatly, the review had a large negative slant to it. This may cause many to think twice about the car.
From what I read, the whole tone of the article was mostly negative, They spent much time bashing the engine for its lack of power with perjoratives such as "Gerbil Like" and "Buzzy". While the Engine is actually more powerful then the Miata.
There also seemed to be an assumption that the Miata was the better car without much backing it up.
I also feel they overexagerated things like the position of Window Switches, cup holders and storage compartment making mention of "John Denver crashing his airplane" in the process.
Putting the Top up they make it sound a lot more difficult than it was for the only time I did it.
In the beginning of the article they compare Saturns Customer Service to being close to Toyota and Honda, when from what I understand they have consistently beaten both of them. They also disparage the Customer Rating by saying "at least by the people who were polled" implying that the poll might be inaccurate or is questionable.
They even criticized the fact that they did not emboss the word SKY in the bumper!
I do not think this was an extremely negative article however, there were enough subtle wordings that led me to believe that it was biased against the Sky.