The UK and US have very different car markets, and very different car magazines probably. You won't see many puegots or anything on our streets or in our magazines. Why would they write an article for a certain market on something that doesn't matter to that market? They wouldn't simply because many people just wouldn't care. They are trying to sell magazines, not give a completely objective rating of every car ever created in the world. Leave out the fact that that statement about car of the universe was obviously a joke aimed at the fact that the accord ranks so highly against the other cars in our market year after year. Try to keep in mind that 99% of the people on this site are from the states or Canada, and we speak to eachother assuming we are talking to people exposed to the same, or very similar car markets. Also, pretty much everyone here understands that the car markets in Euro-land and the States are vastly different and would not be so silly as to make blanket generalizations about cars they kinow nothing about.
