US News going big on rankings of things like cars and trucks and consumer goods

U.S. News and World Report, which pioneered university rankings (America's Best Colleges) on which the well-known Maclean's university rankings were originally modelled, have gone on to rank other aspects of American's lives -- health, hospitals, graduate schools, health plans, leaders. This doesn't make the magazine unique because many other titles, particularly business titles, thrive on the