Picking the winner of a magazine comparison test merely involves knowing who the unofficial sponsor of the test is....

My favorite was the one where the car (It was a "off road" SUV competition....) that won, had lost every category except subjective ("Ride"...etc...), the only thing that made it up the every obstacle was a Jeep Cherokee actually.

The loss of the actual off road portion of the testing was blamed on poor OEM tires for off roading, ...

it was further postulated that if it had been equipped with better tires, it would have in fact won all of the off road comparisons, and ....

was therefore declared the overall winner in one of the biggest stretches I have ever seen a magazine go though to make the correct sponsor happy.



So - I might read a test to derive my own conclusion...I take a magazine's conclusion with a salt shaker or two.