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To: MNI who wrote (8)2/11/2000 8:57:00 AM
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Consumer Reports faces court challenge over SUV rollover tests
By DAVID ROSENZWEIG - Los Angeles Times
Date: 02/09/00 22:15

LOS ANGELES -- Consumer Reports, America's widely respected buyer's guide, is being forced to defend its credibility in a trial that got under way this week in federal court in Los Angeles.

Isuzu Motors has accused the magazine and its nonprofit parent, Consumers Union, of rigging tests to show that the 1995-96 Trooper sport-utility vehicle tended to roll over when making emergency turns.

The Japanese automaker contends it suffered more than $200 million in damages after Consumer Reports panned the Trooper in October 1996. Sales dropped 54 percent.

The magazine, which does not take advertising and has been evaluating products for 64 years, denies that it skewed the tests. It says the lawsuit is a public relations gambit aimed at silencing a fiercely independent consumer watchdog.

Both sides have poured millions of dollars into preparations for the product-disparagement and defamation trial.(cont)
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