Category: Awards

Premium Mid-Size Car: The Ford Fusion is this years winner in the Premium Mid-Size Car segment. The Fusion was particularly good at beating out a long list of competitors in a saturated segment with high marks for exterior size and passenger room. Fusion was also top rated in terms of ride and handling.

Mid-Size Car: The all-new Suzuki Kizashi has been burning up the AutoPacific charts since it’s launch. It won the 2010 Vehicle Satisfaction Award and now collects a 2010 Ideal Vehicle Award. Owners are elated with this vehicle! Some of the top rated attributes include: safety features, handling, exterior size, exterior styling, cargo space and interior lighting.

Premium Compact Car: The 2010 VW GTI resonates with owners! Not only did it win a 2010 Vehicle Satisfaction Award but it also managed to win an Ideal Vehicle Award in the Premium Compact Car segment. The original fun to drive hatchback managed to have 98% of owners say that they want the same exterior size as now. Talk about hitting the mark. The vast majority of owners also say they want the same passenger room, seat firmness, ingress/egress, safety, handling, and cargo space as now. Sounds like this IS ‘Das Auto’ for the Premium Compact Car segment…

Compact Car: The VW Golf win the 2010 Ideal Vehicle Award in the Compact Car segment. Receiving top marks from owners for safety, exterior size and passenger room. The Golf also scored very well for handling, seat firmness and interior lighting.

Economy Car: Great things can come in small packages! The Honda Fit is proof positive that owners in the Economy Car segment don’t have to feel relegated to the penalty box. After winning the 2010 Vehicle Satisfaction Award it was not too surprising that owners would elevate it back up to the top of its class for a 2010 IVA award. Owners tout the Fits exterior size and styling along with its safety and ingress/egress.

Sports Car: Porsche took over the first three spots in the Ideal Vehicle Awards Sports Car Segment, but it was the Porsche Cayman that owners found to be the overall winner. This mid-engine wonder convinced 100% of the owners surveyed that Porsche engineers could not improve upon the handling of the Cayman. Other ratings almost as high include exterior size and styling, ride and safety.

Sporty Car: The all-new Chevrolet Camaro took top honors in the 2010 Ideal Vehicle Awards beating out all other rivals in the Sporty Car segment. This win comes on the heels of a 2010 Vehicle Satisfaction Award win. Owners gave high marks for exterior size and styling along with the vehicles ride and handling.

Hybrid Car: The Ford Fusion Hybrid is the top-scoring Hybrid taking home AutoPacific’s 2010 Ideal Vehicle Award. Categories in which the Fusion scored particularly well include handling and ride. The Fusion Hybrid also took top marks for exterior styling, exterior size, and safety.

Porsche as a brand has been build upon specific tangible and authentic intangible attributes that have made it a first-rate manufacturer of automobiles. Porsche motorcars continue to provide owners with a sense of confidence, exclusivity and satisfaction that all fall within the parameters of being a premium brand. Therefore, it comes as little surprise that Porsche owners have scored their vehicles so high throughout the 2010 Ideal Vehicle Awards as to propel the brand to the top of the premium brand list.

Porsche wins top premium brand for the 2010 IVAs. This must be what those in Zuffenhausen mean when they chime ‘ There is no substitute’.

The Ford brand has eclipsed all popular brand competition in AutoPacific’s 2010 Ideal Vehicle Awards as Ford owners gave their vehicles top marks in eleven different vehicle segments. No other manufacturer came close and is why Ford wins top popular brand for the 2010 IVAs. Ford has definitely made strides over the last few years and owners scores marking the brand a 2010 Ideal Vehicle Award Popular Brand winner highlights Ford hitting the mark with their buyers.