Edmunds.com Announces Editors' Most Wanted Awards for 2004 Model Year
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2003 -- Edmunds.com ( http://www.edmunds.com/ ), the Internet's premiere resource for consumer automotive information, today announced the winners of the sixth annual Editors' Most Wanted vehicle awards.
"The Editors' Most Wanted awards recognize the new model year vehicles the Edmunds.com editors would choose, for each of 29 vehicle categories, if we were spending our own money," explains Karl Brauer, Editor-In-Chief of Edmunds.com. "For this task, our demographically diverse editorial staff is guided by passion, not science, to choose the vehicles we'd love to have in our own driveways."
The 2004 winners in each category are: Coupe Under $15,000 Honda Civic Sedan Under $15,000 Mazda 3 Wagon Under $15,000 Scion xB Coupe Under $25,000 Volkswagen Golf Convertible Under $25,000 Mazda MX-5 Miata Sedan Under $25,000 Volkswagen Passat Wagon Under $25,000 Volkswagen Passat SUV Under $25,000 Kia Sorrento Coupe Under $35,000 BMW 3 Series Convertible Under $35,000 Honda S2000 Sedan Under $35,000 BMW 3 Series Wagon Under $35,000 Audi A4 Avant SUV Under $35,000 Ford Explorer/Mercury Mountaineer Coupe Under $45,000 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible Under $45,000 BMW 3 Series Sedan Under $45,000 BMW 5 Series Wagon Under $45,000 Audi A6 Avant Midsize SUV Under $45,000 Volkswagen Touareg Large SUV Under $45,000 Chevrolet Tahoe/GMC Yukon Coupe Over $45,000 Mercedes-Benz CL-Class Convertible Over $45,000 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Sedan Over $45,000 Audi A8 L Wagon Over $45,000 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Midsize SUV Over $45,000 Land Rover Range Rover Large SUV Over $45,000 Cadillac Escalade Compact Truck Dodge Dakota Large Truck Nissan Titan Minivan Toyota Sienna Exotic Aston Martin Vanquish
In conjunction with the Editors' Most Wanted award announcements each October, Edmunds.com also selects the Most Significant Vehicle of the Year. This accolade is awarded to a vehicle that changes the rules of a given segment, creates a new niche or redefines an automaker's image. This year's winner, the Nissan Titan, was announced earlier this month.
Details on all award winners are listed at http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/mostwanted/articles/ .
Members of the public are invited to vote for their own vehicle choices at Edmunds.com each April. Last year's Consumers' Most Wanted award winners can be found at http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/consumersmostwanted/2003/index.html .
About Edmunds.com, Inc.
Edmunds.com is the premier online resource for automotive information. Its comprehensive set of data, tools and services, including Edmunds.com True Market Value(R) pricing, is generated by Edmunds Data Services and is licensed to third parties. For example, the company supplies over 800,000 pages of content for the auto sections of AOL and NYTimes.com, provides weekly data to Automotive News and delivers monthly data reports to Wall Street analysts. Edmunds.com was named "best car research" site by Forbes ASAP, has been named by consumers as the "most useful Web site" according to the J.D. Power and Associates New Autoshopper.com Studies(SM) since 2001, and was ranked first in the Survey of Car-Shopping Web Sites as reported by The Wall Street Journal. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California and maintains a satellite office in Troy, Michigan.
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