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Byline: BOB GRITZINGER
North American Car and Truck of the Year voters proved to be very traditional on one hand, and tres avant-garde on the other. In Truck of the Year balloting, the panel of 49 journalists picked the completely redesigned 2004 Ford F-150 pickup ahead of Nissan's new full-size Titan truck and the Cadillac SRX sportwagon. On the car side, any hint of being hidebound went out the power side window as voters gave top marks to the revamped 2004 version of Toyota's gasoline-electric hybrid Prius. Runners-up were the Mazda RX-8 sports car and the Cadillac XLR luxury roadster.
Though Nissan aimed its Titan squarely at F-150's market share, voters said the best-selling Ford was clearly the class of the lot. "Ford did what it had to do to keep the F-150 at the top of the heap,'' said Road and Track's Matt DeLorenzo. "Excellent rework of a legend,'' added Washington Post auto writer Warren Brown. F-150 won with 317 points; Titan received 249, followed by SRX with 198.
"If there's one thing we're committed to, it's truck leadership,'' said Phil Martens, Ford vice president in charge of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Something Old, Something New.(News)