cadillac cts-v
Other than the above, there are few restrictions for 10Best consideration. The car must be on sale no later than January 2004. Its base price must fall below our price cap of $69,000 (2.5 times the average new-vehicle transaction price as of last summer). And most important of all, the manufacturer must deliver one for our mid-September evaluations, because we aren’t going to dispense any awards to cars we’ve never driven.
Then we gather here in Ann Arbor every editor not on critical assignment elsewhere, including our three international correspondents. This year that produced a quorum of 13, with a total of 292 years spent scribbling about automobiles.
We devoted an entire week to wringing out our nominees on the back roads west of headquarters that have become the real-world evaluation roads of choice for Detroit’s carmakers. There was also plenty of opportunity to see how our favorites performed over the network of local freeways and through the increasingly L.A.-like congestion of downtown Ann Arbor.
With plenty of us on hand, we also had ample opportunity to gauge the people-carrying comfort of each machine. Read the rest of this entry »