Power & Associates spotted the Acura nameplate at the top of its annual Customer Satisfaction Index. The Integra won a position on our Ten Best list, outgunned nine other pocket pistols in our “Hot-Shot Shoot-Out,” and drove its way into the hearts and garages of more than 50,000 American customers. Nineteen eighty-seven was a banner year for Acura.
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Sources: Top-selling Cars, Ward's Automotive Year Book Super Bowl Winners, Best Picture Winners, World Series Winners, Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture: Ladies and gentlemen, we present the 1988 edition of the Ten Best Cars in all the land. The Acura Integra, the Honda Civic, and the Honda CRX are basking in their second year of glory, while the Acura Legend Coupe is our only new recruit. The Saab 9000 Turbo and Ford’s Mustang and Taurus are now three-time winners. The Audi 5000 is back with five gold stars Betty Furness, eat your hat. That makes the Accord the one perfect player, with six wins in all six Ten Best years. Honda is the motor company on the move: not only did it hold on to the two slots it won in ‘87, it added three more this year. Seven out of the ten victors were on our Ten Best list last year.
That is not to say there were no surprises. We compared notes and searched souls for a while, then retired to quarters to ponder our votes for five American-made and five imported cars, A few hours later, the first ballot revealed ten clear winners. After several days of driving, the seven C/D editors on the Ten Best jury agreed on only one thing: there wasn’t a turkey in the 30-car fleet. The Vixen served as a cozy office-away-from-office, and the back roads of southern Michigan provided the ups, downs, lefts, and rights we needed to shake out our collection of candidates. This year, we assembled 30 contenders and one Vixen XC motorhome at Chrysler’s Chelsea proving grounds. Phase two is a hands-on, head-to-head evaluation. The only limit is price: we exclude cars costing more than $35,000 in base price (up five grand this year), under the theory that any car costing so much had better be great. The C/D editors begin the yearly process by nominating their favorites from past road tests. The traffic jam of fine automobiles on this page should give you an inkling of what it’s like to winnow the Ten Best Cars from the hundreds of models on the American market. Antoine’s conviction record will be sincerely appreciated. What’s more, managing editor Don Coulter has magnanimously tipped the editorial hat to those of you who may have ulterior motives for reading Car and Driver: his selection of Ten Best Cop Stories is not to be construed as a sop, but anything those of you in authority can do to erase a few points from Art St. We have no intention of leaving you faithful readers out of this Ten Best fest: senior editor Larry Griffin makes good on our promise to publish the Ten Best Reader Photographs. And associate editor Tony Assenza dug up the Ten Best Weird Races in the world. Executive editor Rich Ceppos giggled himself silly choosing the Ten Best Car-Toons. On the lighter side, editor at large Patrick Bedard reports on the results of his quest for the Ten Best Trivial Pursuits. Those who have managed to negotiate the ruts of life over the past twelve months-and others who haven’t-are singled out by associate editor Art St.
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As a reminder that the road to success is full of potholes, Pete Lyons pays tribute to the Ten Best Ahead-of-Their-Time Machines. Our man of the seas, Brock Yates, took a break from salmon fishing to identify the pillars of the world automotive community in Ten Best Moguls. The Ten Best Engineering Breakthroughs that have made today’s fleet of cars so wonderful are assessed by technical director Csaba Csere.
It’s a task that gets tougher every ear, but what better way is there to mark automotive progress? In truth, it’s not fair to label this issue “work.” We do scurry about like frenzied elves as we wrap up this package of ten stories, but the C/D staff loves any excuse to dig into the archives in search of automotive glad tidings.Īs always, the centerpiece of this celebration is Car and Driver’s pick of the Ten Best Cars. Ready or not, we’re back with another lapful of our best work to prove that there really is a Santa Claus. Stoke up the yule log and pour yourself another cup of flog, because it’s that Ten Best time of year again.
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