Australia's Best Car Awards 2004

[fpv_gtho]

http://www.mynrma.com.au/aust_best_cars.asp

basically these are the highlights....

3 awards this year to Ford
3 years in a row for the BA Falcon
Another award for the WRX
Territory claims maiden ABC award
Fiesta knocks Hyundai off their small car perch
Audi/VW claim 3 awards
Honda, Subaru and Lexus/Toyota fill the rest with 2 awards each

[IBrake4Rainbows]

These awards always show me.....

How much the manufacturers pay the Journalists.

It's obviously a crock when Hyundai win anything other than the Value award.

But onto another subject: Car Awards time is coming up, with COTY Australian style coming up.

My Guess: Territory. By a mile.

[Luciferous]

Theres WADA as well, plus PCOTY coming up soon with all the new HSV's against the F6 Typhoon....pity the new M5 won't make it to australia in time

[SlickHolden]

They would all give up awards to sell more cars, Awards are a bonus

[Luciferous]

All I know is that last years was a crock. The Accord Seppo won an award? What the hell?

[SlickHolden]

lol I don't even know that car hahaha
Shows you how big that car is

[Luciferous]

its the American Accord, or the Accord V6 as Honda dubs it (even though its got a 4 cylinder as one of its models)

[SlickHolden]

Ohh that one, I have seen 1...................lol

[fpv_gtho]

how they ever got one version of a car to be so great and another to be such a dud will always excape me


some major players i guess can be seen for Wheels COTY as IB4R said: Fiesta, Astra, Territory just to name a few. The Territory's been winning 9/10 of everything though so it will behard to beat. only fuel consumption and offroad ability will hold it back IMO

[Luciferous]

Personally I think the Mazda6 should have won the year the BA did. Don't get me wrong, the BA is a great car, but the Mazda6 ignited an entire category all over again. Plus certain comments from a judge didn't make me entirely convinced the BA won sheerly on its merits. I think the RX-8 may have been swayed to win to keep Mazda quiet (they were quite vocal on how unimpressed they were at not winning with the 6), but I definately see the Tezza winning this year. I don't see the Astra being a contender, but if the Liberty gets an entry because of its 3.0R and 3.0R-B models, I'd see them as looking good. If Honda got the safety right in its new Odyssey it'd be a contender as welll, but it isn't to be.

[fpv_gtho]

well i think it was pretty close, all 3 of the last cars in 2002 were trend setters and each couldve walked away with the award. Robbo's comments on the BA about it being dynamically superior to cars costing 3x the amount though wouldve had some weight with the other judges and that ended up leading to the XR6T's Euro tour.

[Luciferous]

Another judges' comment about the award would really help Ford's sales left me a little disallusioned. Oh well COTY has had history of being extremely biased, the VN being a prime example.

[fpv_gtho]

or maybe the Camira...some years i guess they just get "normal" cars winning the award from manufacturers delaying a launch to get the car right

[Luciferous]

Well some years there's just shit cars on the market and no good choices.

[fpv_gtho]

well...depends what you call a shit car as well. some cars are held back by price from import taxes and levy's and all the other ways the government robs the manufacturers of money. something like the Smart ForTwo could win in a year of dud cars, but that doesnt mean itself is that much of a dud