Edmunds.com Announces Consumers' Most Wanted Awards for 2004

Toyota Prius Named Consumers' Choice for Most Significant Vehicle of the Year

SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 11 -- Edmunds.com (http://www.edmunds.com/), the Internet's premiere resource for consumer automotive information, today announced the winners of the third annual Consumers' Most Wanted vehicle awards.

"Edmunds.com visitors regularly provide us and each other with feedback, so every year we ask them to vote for their Most Wanted Vehicles of the year," said Karl Brauer, Editor in Chief of Edmunds.com. "While there are quite a few agreements with the choices expressed in the Editors' Most Wanted vehicle awards, consumers heavily favored Japanese vehicles while we editors selected more European and domestic models."

The Toyota Prius was definitively selected as the Consumers' Most Significant Vehicle of the Year for 2004, garnering nearly twice as many votes as its nearest competitors. Tied for second place were the Mazda RX-8 and the Nissan Titan, the latter of which was selected last fall as the Editors' Most Significant Vehicle of the Year for 2004.

   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                      Acura RSX
                                            Mini Cooper (tie)
   Convertible Under $25,000                Mazda MX-5 Miata
   Sedan Under $25,000                      Honda Accord
   Wagon Under $25,000                      Mazda 3
   Compact SUV Under $25,000                Honda CR-V
   Coupe Under $35,000                      Infiniti G35
   Convertible Under $35,000                Honda S2000
   Sedan Under $35,000                      Acura TL
   Wagon Under $35,000                      Audi A4/S4
   Midsize SUV Under $35,000                Infiniti FX35
   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                  Cadillac SRX
   Coupe Over $45,000                       Porsche 911
   Convertible Over $45,000                 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class
   Sedan Over $45,000                       Audi A8
   Midsize SUV Over $45,000                 Porsche Cayenne
   Large SUV Over $45,000                   Cadillac Escalade/Escalade ESV
   Compact Truck                            Toyota Tacoma
   Large Truck                              Nissan Titan
   Minivan                                  Toyota Sienna
   Exotic                                   Ferrari Enzo

Details on all award winners are listed at http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/consumersmostwanted/2004/index.html.

Each October, Edmunds.com editors choose their favorite vehicles in the Editors' Most Wanted Vehicle awards. The most recent list of those winners can be found at http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/mostwanted/2004/index.html.

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Edmunds.com is the premier on-line 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 selected by consumers as the "most useful Web site" according to every J.D. Power and Associates New Autoshopper.com Study(SM) 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, Calif., and maintains a satellite office outside Detroit.