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On more than one occasion, I have seen how they are biased. They are very pro-Japanese car (In one review, the Toyota car wouldn't start, but somehow it ended up with a high reliability rating). I also saw how they created a testing methodology which made some products look really the opposite of reality.

For example: Bunn coffee makers keep a tank of water hot, so that when you pour the water in, you displace the hot water and it makes a pot of coffee immediately. The test proceedure had the technicians start the clock at the time the coffee maker was plugged in. So the Bunn needs a long time to heat it's initial tank. No one keeps a Bunn unplugged. They should have made a note of this in the test results, and also shown how long it takes a preheated Bunn to make a pot of coffee.
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