US-based automotive enthusiast magazine, Car and Driver, has announced winners in its 22nd annual roundup of the ten best cars sold in America. The Car and Driver “10Best” winners are featured in January 2004 issue of the magazine on sale next week.
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Like last year, eight models from foreign automakers and one each from Ford and General Motors make up this year’s list of the Car and Driver editors’ favourites. The 2004 “10Best” line-up adds four all-new or significantly improved Japanese models: Acura TSX, Honda S2000, Mazda RX8 and the first hybrid vehicle ever to make the list, the Toyota Prius. Also new to the “10Best list” is Germany’s Audi S4 Quattro. Rounding out the list is a group of perennial winners: BMW 3-Series/M3, Chevrolet Corvette, Ford Focus and Honda Accord; and a repeat winner in only its second year of production, the Infiniti G35.
This year’s Car and Driver “10Best” winners are:
* Acura TSX (1) * Honda Accord (18)
* Audi S4 Quattro (1) * Honda S2000 (4)
* BMW 3-Series/M3 (13) * Infiniti G35 (2)
* Chevrolet Corvette (10) * Mazda RX8 (1)
* Ford Focus (5) * Toyota Prius (1)
(Numbers in parentheses show total number of times the vehicle has been named to the Car and Driver “10Best” list.)
“Stunning styling, terrific technology, and excellent value are the virtues we certainly appreciate,” said Editor-in-Chief Csaba Csere (pronounced Chubba Chedda). “We found them in abundance among the 57 cars nominated for our 2004 awards.”
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By GlobalDataA 13-member panel of Car and Driver editors — with a combined 292 years of experience — gathered in Ann Arbor earlier this year to determine winners by rating them on a scale from 1 to 100.
Finalists must fall below a price cap of $69,000 as determined by multiplying by 2.5 the average transaction price as of Summer 2003, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association. Importantly, in order to qualify as a nominee, the manufacturers must be able to deliver a vehicle for testing as the Car and Driver staff only considers vehicles it can actually drive.
The magazine also re-nominates previous year’s winners if they are still available and under the price cap. It then identifies new or substantially upgraded vehicles for the current year. This year, the process yielded 57 nominees.
