Lemon-Aid Used Car Guide 1986

Toby Rupert was a librarian living in Toronto.

Lemon-Aid waslast reviewed in CBRA 1983, item 1090; the 1985 edition is its twelfth. Its purpose is still “to give consumers unbiased, comprehensive evaluations of used cars and trucks available on the Canadian market” (p. xiii). The evaluations are based on complaints received by the Automobile Protection Association in Canada (of which Edmonston is founder and president), consumer agencies in the U.S. and Europe, government and industry crash tests, parts cost and availability, cost of repair estimates, strength of the dealer networks, rate of depreciation, rust resistance, recall campaigns, safety defect probes, warranty statistics, and gas mileage reports. These are all given for each make of vehicle. Very useful here is a 30-page chapter on investing in older cars (“vintage cars”).