Motor Trend Names TWAT Nominee SUV of the Year
Obviously, we don't screen our readers' TWAT nominees– until next week. That's when TTAC's writers vote on the 20 finalists from ALL your suggestions, for your final vote. Meanwhile, the "best of the best" love fest that inspired our name and shamery continues over at the buff books, car writers' associations and anywhere else they can get brownie points (i.e. press cars and advertising) from automakers. Motor Trend has announced their SUV of the Year :" the Mazda CX-9. Strangley, the accompanying article is laden with qualifiers "Mazda's finest demonstration of infusing sports-car qualities into an SUV;" "An SUV seemingly well suited for going to the mountains, midtown, or the market;" "The CX-9 was arguably the most enjoyable sport 'ute to pilot;" and "Of course, the CX-9 isn't perfect;" Although it's [more than] a little unfair to suggest that the CX-9 is inherently TWAT-worthy (our review is on its way), the SUV didn't escape TTAC commentator kansei's scorn: "The CX-9 is decidedly unsporty and pollutes the zoom zoom brand image." Oh, and two of the 11 Motor Trend's also-rans are former TWATs: the Jeep Compass (the Liberty was also on their short list) and the Subaru Tribeca. Just sayin'…
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Now this is funny! # fotobits : October 16th, 2007 at 12:50 pm A brief history of the Motor Trend Car of the Year. Some lowlights: 1971 Chevy Vega 1974 Mustang II 1975 Chevy Monza 2+2 1980 Chevy Citation 1981 Chrysler K cars 1983 AMC/Renault Alliance 1987 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe Every one of these would have been a TWAT winner.
A friend who is DESPERATE for husband & kids has just bought one (hahaha)
My parents have one, it don't bother me none. Gets what we need done, can haul stuff when we need to haul it, has some decent grunt to it, and its comfy. Whenever I feel like driving something bigger than my car, I skip our Benz and take the CX-9 instead. Heathroi: Is she cute, under 25, and Consservative leaning?