Car Buying Guide & Ratings Reviews – Page 2
4/5 rating based on 75 reviews. Read all reviews for Car Buying Guide & Ratings for iPhone.
Car Buying Guide & Ratings is free iOS app published by Consumer Reports
Great
Tooth217
I love the videos of the test drives. Nicely informative. Needs an update of new test drives of the newer vehicles.
Mixed good and bad. 2.5 stars.
Roger OS
Great to have links to actual local inventory. Very bad to have a default zip code in S.California. Also need to obtain local info without direct contacts from dealers! I cannot count the number of contacts they all tried ... in two states.... Could not find invoiced costs for extras including floor mats, extended maintenance packages, etc. In summary,great info, created obnoxious contacts before I was ready, and missed real costs for a large percentage of what salespersons try to add to the cost of the vehicle.
*Far Below Average* reliability is my rating for this guide
CubbieBlueNWI
What was the reason you designed a separate app for vehicle ratings? Far less detail than in the past. Plus your reviews depart from historic trends of the magazine on things like reliability. Yet, you don’t provide the data to support these changes. One possibility? You don’t have nearly the number of previous subscribers so your data is minuscule or skewed. Another possibility? Reviewers lack objectivity. Maybe they always have but my experience used to match the reviews. For 25+ years. Now I rarely agree. Worst case? You’re flat out paid to skew things. I’m no longer ruling it out on cars. Example: I do not believe you have substantial data to support Honda Civics having “average” mechanical liability. You do seem to hate the infotainment system (like you hated the Ford Sync system). Do radio complaints make a car unreliable? Different example: I tried to research a Nissan Quest for a friend. For most years I checked you didn’t have enough data. Another example: It appears you have a bias toward Kia and Hyundai. I’m sure they have dramatically improved their reliability. But there was a reason they had to give the 100,000 mile warranty for years. So the Elantra gets “far above average” and Civic gets “average”? I don’t believe it because of the anecdotal testimonials I’ve heard, my own experiences and your lack of supporting data. Here’s the thing: KBB, Edmunds, they all still say Civics are reliable and hold their resale value. Share the details of your data. And why would CRV be rated so much higher? Built on same platform with more mechanical complexity. It stands to reason that while it may be very reliable (I owned one for 6 years and was very happy) it is unlikely to be SUBSTANTIALLY more reliable than the car it is based on. Throughout this guide there are odd anomalies like this. Show us exactly what the reliability complaints are like you used to and how many complaints you’ve actually received to apply these seemingly meaningless ratings. Otherwise I won’t subscribe anymore and I’ll recommend different guides to friends and family.
Garbage/Ripoff
Magneto Grande
Purchasing in-app gives you no choice to provide login passcodes, yet immediately sends you back to a page which ASKS for them. Once I went through a settings maze of somehow accidentally removing and then restoring my subscription...it automatically let me in at that point. Which is probably what is was supposed to do from the start. Once I was finally in, guess what? ZERO information on EITHER of the vehicles I was researching. Total waste of money.
Invaluable App
David jug gar
This is my go-to app for evaluating car choices. The areas reviewed are important for all car buyers.
Very low information app
SpotItHere
Specifically for used cars... Compared to the print edition we used to get the app is worthless. - unable to view multiple vehicles on the same page or even do a side by side comparison - drill-down search is very clunky and time consuming - actual used car pages ratings are limited to reliability and owner satisfaction along with the CR featurette of the test drive which is too much like a marketing video and not critical enough. The pros and cons should be text — easily scannable and right upfront, not hidden in some video. Edit: the CR reply doesn’t address the lack of info on older cars (even as old as 2017), which is one of the best features of the desktop version. iOS fail.
CR is the best
Kid00778
I’ve been using the car guide and the regular for at least 30 years. They’re always right!!!!!
Terrible filtering
Gordo275
No options. Just a list basically that’s barely sortable. Their ‘calculators’ really do nothing of suggesting things like interest rates or closing costs to estimate.