The whiners are the ones that won't buy a car with bun warmers...I don't really want to read the same article 3 times either. I do not consider constructive criticism to be 'whining', it's an integral part of improvement.
Hey, I'm sure we'd all like to see some different reviews, and not the same cars over and over. But as airbalancer said, no one is forced to read these articles. I'm assuming that the reviewers don't get much choice in what cars they review - they likely get what they get. Or is that mistaken? So if for some reason Toyota continues to send Matrices for review (I don't know why they would either...) then that's what the reviewers get to review. This isn't insideline where they (sometimes) buy a car and use it for a long-term review.
As for the "advertorial" comment - I think it's really writer-dependent. Chris, James, and Jill have all called a car out in their reviews when it was warranted (eg this Matrix review!) I'm not so sure about the other reviewers. That's why I go to autos.ca and stopped reading from auto123 - now those folks specialize in advertorials.
No we are not forced to read the article, but we come here every morning to see if there is anything exciting developping, something cool, hot whatever.....no we get get a f....toaster.
We review cars here. The car mfgs send us cars to review, and, because we review cars here,
we review the cars the car mfgs send us. Can I make it any clearer, for the thousandth time?
Toyota isn't the only carmaker who sends us the same model each year, in order to "show off" the year-to-year changes they've made to the car. We are a consumer-oriented publication, not an enthusiast-biased one. If we start saying no to the cars that aren't "cool/hot," they'll stop sending us vehicle altogether, and then we're out of business cos we have nothing to write about. If that happens and I lose my job, I tell you what - I'll swing by your house and sleep in the backseat of your Juke.
You don't like car, don't read the review. As far as the advertorial/informercial comment, you're not reading the articles if you think we're publishing advertorials. I bet you wouldn't have much bad to say about my not-entirely-negative review of "your" car:
http://www.autos.ca/car-test-drives/test-drive-2011-nissan-juke-sl-awd