As requested Car Reviews, here's your monthly update from ConsumerReports.org, your go-to place for information on the products and services you use every day. This month, we're featuring content from the brand-new December 2010 issue of Consumer Reports, which offers tons of advice for holiday shopping as well as expert advice to help you make smart decisions about health insurance, eyeglasses, and wine.
Subscribe today and get access to our new Consumer Reports Mobile™ program. | |  |  | |  | 'Tis the season to buy electronics  | | | With the holiday buying blitz in electronics upon us, check out our continuously updated Ratings of the best places to buy TVs, cameras, and other major electronics and stores to shop for computers. We also have shopping tips on hot technologies like 3D, haggling, and more. Our updated Ratings of LCD and plasma TVs include our first-ever rankings of 3D TVs for the quality of their 3D experience. You'll also want to use our buyer's guides to smart phones, basic and advanced cameras, laptop and desktop computers, printers, camcorders, and more. See our Electronics blog for more news and reviews to help you in your Black Friday shopping and beyond. | | |  | | | What's cooking for the holidays | | | Want fast heating, sleek design, and easy-to-clean surfaces without breaking your budget? Our tests of more than 200 cooking appliances yielded a long list of top picks that deliver all of the above as big brands push added value. See our Ratings of ranges, cooktops, and microwaves. We also tested coffeemakers so you can make the perfect brew for your guests. In our tests of wine, we found 20 Best Buys, most that cost $10 or less. Finally, to make tidying up easier, we compared three floor cleaners to see which left floors the cleanest. | | | | | | Buying a new car? Learn more about new-car reliability | | | Findings from the 2010 Annual Auto Survey, based on subscribers' experiences with 1.3 million vehicles, show that GM is making big strides, Ford is the most-reliable American automaker, Asian brands continue to do well, and European brand reliability has stalled. See the best and worst cars, and everything in between. Plus, read up on the latest GPS navigators and check out our face-off between the Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Toyota 4Runner. | | | | | | Important safety recall | | | Evenflo recently recalled more than 18,000 child car seats in the United States and Canada after Consumer Reports' tests showed the seat can crack and fail in a simulated 30-mph frontal collision. The recall affects models of the Evenflo Maestro Combination Booster Seat manufactured up to April 9, 2010 in the U.S. and up to April 26, 2010 in Canada. The $80 Maestro is designed to be used either with its own five-point harness as a conventional child seat, or as a booster seat using the vehicle's seat belt to restrain the child. In tests conducted at an outside laboratory, Consumer Reports found that two of the Evenflo units failed when the seat's plastic shell cracked and the harness loosened in our simulated 30-mph frontal-impact crashes. | | | | | | |
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