pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/carbuying/" rel="tag"Car Buying/a/pimg border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/cr-april-09-cover_opt.jpg" /As we a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/26/honda-tops-consumer-reports-2009-automaker-report-cards-again/"reported/a yesterday, emConsumer Reports/em' annual a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/cars/new-cars/resource-center/2009-annual-auto-issue/2009-april-auto-issue.htm"2009 Auto Issue/a has just been released, and it seems that American automakers just can't catch a break from the popular magazine. Included alongside the Automaker's Report Cards are a list of cars that offer the best calculated value over a five year period. Hybrids, despite their initial cost disadvantage when the dotted line is first signed, managed to take five of the top several slots. The 2009 Toyota Prius Touring model bested all contenders as the top overall value out of all 300 vehicles CR tested for the '09 season.br /br /While perusing the results, we noticed the complete absence of any American automobiles on the Best Value list. We'd expect to see horrible performances from such vehicles as the HUMMER H2, which CR says will cost its owners $82,250 after just five years of ownership, but we're a little surprised to see that cars like the Ford Fusion or Chevy Malibu couldn't crack the top 5 family sedan list. Better luck next year. br /br /[Source: Consumer Reports]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/28/toyota-prius-earns-best-value-ranking-from-consumer-reports-ame/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emToyota Prius earns Best Value ranking from Consumer Reports, American brands fail to make the grade/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/28/toyota-prius-earns-best-value-ranking-from-consumer-reports-ame/"Toyota Prius earns Best Value ranking from Consumer Reports, American brands fail to make the grade/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:55:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/28/toyota-prius-earns-best-value-ranking-from-consumer-reports-ame/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1474042/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/28/toyota-prius-earns-best-value-ranking-from-consumer-reports-ame/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HUNcko8r8FHlMZGVK9MOeCHcaHA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/HUNcko8r8FHlMZGVK9MOeCHcaHA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=bZTObHcck8w:S_o2QVPh9b4:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=bZTObHcck8w:S_o2QVPh9b4:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=bZTObHcck8w:S_o2QVPh9b4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=bZTObHcck8w:S_o2QVPh9b4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/bZTObHcck8w" height="1" width="1"/

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