Are car journalists paid to write nice things?

[obi_waynne]

Do you think that car journalists are paid bribed or otherwise persuaded to write nice things?

How much do you trust car reviews in Newspapers? Magazines? In websites?

Do you take everything you read about cars with a pinch of salt?

 

[old-git]

A friend's daughter worked for an advertising agency. They were plugging a sat nav and entered it into a mag's best buy type article. All the reviews were handed to the mag along with the complimentary sat nav by each sat nav manufacturer or their agent. Nothing was written by the mag and no testing was done by them. She didn't explain how the scores and best buy were worked out but I can guess

 

[obi_waynne]

That does make you think doesn't it OG!

 

[HDi fun]

The hifi press is not dissimilar