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Jeannine Fallon
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Edmunds.com Determines Top
Ten Most Spacious Cars and Trucks
Santa Monica, CA - March
25, 2002 - Edmunds.com, the Web's leading
consumer resource for unbiased automotive information, today issued a list of
the new cars and trucks with the most driver and front-passenger space. The winners
were selected based on the average of the head room, hip room and leg room in
each vehicle.
Top Cars for Driver/Front-Passenger Space
1. Nissan Maxima
2. Lexus LS 430
3. Lincoln Town Car
4. Ford Crown Victoria/ Mercury Grand Marquis (tie)
4. Mercedes-Benz S-Class (tie)
6. Audi A8 and S8 (tie)
6. Buick Park Avenue (tie)
6. Infiniti I30/I35 (tie)
9. Infiniti Q45
10. Chevrolet Impala (tie)
10. Chrysler 300M/Chrysler LHS (tie)
Top Light and Medium Trucks for Driver/Front-Passenger Space
1. Ford Excursion
2. Ford F-250 Super Duty/F-350 Super Duty
3. Ford Econoline Wagon
4. Dodge Ram Pickup 1500
5. Dodge Ram Pickup 2500/3500
6. Chevrolet Astro/GMC Safari
7. Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana
8. Cadillac Escalade
9. Chevrolet Silverado 1500, 1500HD, 2500, 2500HD & 3500 (tie)
9. GMC Sierra 1500, 1500HD, 2500, 2500HD & 3500 (tie)
9. Lincoln Navigator (tie)
(Note: vehicles separated by a slash are "twinned vehicles," built on the same
chassis, sharing most of their under-hood and interior components. For more information
on "twinned vehicles," visit http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/46969/article.html.)
While the most spacious cars come from automakers based around the globe, a Detroit-based
manufacturer builds every one of the roomiest light trucks.
"Domestic light truck companies have been serving the American market far longer
than the imports have, and intuitively understand that Americans truck drivers
want big, powerful, functional vehicles. The European and Japanese manufacturers
are starting out from a much different perspective and therefore seem to limit
their vehicles based on their local restrictions, such as high fuel prices and
narrow roads," commented Karl Brauer, Editor-In-Chief of Edmunds.com. "On the
other hand, our list of the roomiest cars reflects the imports' ability to combine
voluminous car interiors within efficiently packaged exteriors."
Check http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10/51598/article.html
for the full article about cars and
http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/list/top10/51597/article.html
for the full article about trucks.
About Edmunds.com, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, CA, Edmunds.com
is the Internet's pioneer and leader in providing free, third party automotive
information, tools and services for consumers. Edmunds.com empowers, educates,
and engages visitors by providing them with straightforward information on all
aspects of buying, selling, and owning a vehicle. Edmunds.com True Market Value®
products inform the general public of the actual transaction prices of cars and
trucks while Edmunds' PowershopperSM offers car
shoppers the opportunity to research and pursue online and offline purchase options
in an informative, consumer-friendly environment. Visitors are also provided extensive
automobile reviews, current incentives and rebates, consumer advice, safety information,
auto show highlights and the Town Hall automotive community. Many of these resources
are powered by Edmunds Data Services, which provides a complete automotive data
set to the Edmunds.com Web site and licenses such data to third parties. Edmunds.com
was named "best car research" site by Forbes ASAP, is viewed by consumers
as the "most useful Web site," according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2001
New Autoshopper.com StudySM*, was ranked number
one in the Survey of Car-Shopping Web Sites as reported by The Wall Street
Journal, and was named as one of Yahoo! Internet Life's 50 Most Incredibly
Useful Sites and one of Money's 50 Most Useful Financial Web sites.
*J.D. Power and Associates is not affiliated with Edmunds.com, Inc. and does not
endorse Edmunds.com or any other Web sites.
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