[...] Leftlane – Interior of the Year winners announced [...]

is this a joke coz it aint funny ok

Ha ha ha! I think it IS funny…

wow, this is pretty ridiculous

Gm and Chrysler beat audi!!! lol lol lol, this is detroit rewarding itself

Yeah, let´s forget about BMW, Bentley, Jaguar, Porsche… Their interiors are all in bad quality plastics… What a joke.

Wow… these categories don’t even line up - since when is the Zephyr a premium-priced car? And the Tahoe? The melting-plastic interior? Give me a break.

“Best (Driver) Seat System went to Mercedes S-Class, which makes its own seats”

Holy ****! It MAKES its own Seats!??!?!?

#9: See? The Terminator was right, the S-Class has become self-aware and can now manufacture itself!

OH, and the whole ridgleine thing bugs me too, since it really was not an innovation at all. Other manufacturers have had similar features, so this is hardly groundbreaking innovation.

LOL!!! This is the most rediculous thing I’ve ever read! Well, I guess they had to invent something for Detroit to make it on the list. Nice “advertising”!!!

Seriously, have these “judges” even been inside other vehicles? You can’t help but laugh!!!

This article is a joke.

Toot toot goes the detroit horn!

This is one of the funniest things I’ve read this year.

Instead of these companies trying to make better interiors, they decide to pat themselves on the back and say that it is good according to their standards. This is like a slap in the face of MB, BMW, AUDI etc’s for even making an effort to make their interiors enjoyable to be in.

This is seriosly funny.

Are you all done yet?

You should stop and actually READ the article instead on blindy bashing GM/Lincoln. The new Tahoe’s interior is a nice combintations of materials and layout. Tell me an interior of another full-size suv that even comes close. The Pontiacs interior is aguably the nicest in its class. Thats goes for the Escalade and HHR too.

The lincoln zephyr’s interior is probaly its stongest asset. I am in no means a Lincoln guy, but i LOVE that interior. Its materials and layout are gorgeuos.

Take things for what they are and drop your biases. They deserved to Win because they did. A few of the categories might have been wrongly categorized but overall i think the survey wass pretty right on.

I have to join the bandwagon. What were the judges smoking? We know who is lining their pockets!!!

I also like the Lincoln and Caddy interiors. Neither look like all the other Jap “me to” interiors! And as for payola, anyone remember the Honda/Rick Hendrick payola scandals? Anyone think its not still going on?

T-rex: Detroit can’t afford to line their pockets.

ironic that detroit gave awards to their own cars, such as the super duper chevy tah(c)o

That is just stupid if you look at the media winners and then the industry winners there should be more overlap. Secondly who the hell would vote the Escelade having a better interior then a Range Rover? Even the Range Rover Sport interior is not nearly as nice as the big Range Rovers interior.

Chris,

My A4 takes the Zephyr and pulverizes it when it comes to the quality of the interior, especially since a lot of the parts used in my car are also used in the A8.

Jon.

Having spent a few days riding in a friend’s Escalade I can honestly say that I have no clue why any kind of praise would be directed at it. The plastic panels in the back were off by more than an inch, one of the A/C vents on the ceiling fell off for no reason and the dashboard looked no different than any other GM SUV, except for the wood trim. The Range Rover, on the other hand, has a beautifully styled dash and the one I’ve ridden around in definitely felt well screwed together - especially when compared to the Escalade. This “Interior of the Year” scam is just like Motor Trend’s Car of the Year, nothing but fluff.

The big three just lost any shred of credibility they ever had.
Its like when there was domestic car of the year and import car of the year so there was no competition for the home teams.

I bet all the categories are so narrow that they exclude all the real winners with the usual ” The Corvette has no competition because its so cheap” arguement. Surly the range rover or Porsche Catenne or Audi Q7 won the premium SUV category.

Pontiac Solstice won! don’t make me laugh.

I’d love to know what car beat the AUdi A6 interior, it sure as heck wasn’t a cadillac.

Jetta has a better interior than a Solstice
RAV4 has a better interior than an HHR

This is complete BOLLOCKS

Passat A4, anything has a better interior than the Zephyr, Milan Fusion trio of crap

Have any of you actually sat in or drove any of the cars that won? Honestly, instead of blindly bashing a product you have never been in, why dont you go look at one for yourselves. Then maybe your opinion would have some merrit. Oh wait, this is the magical fairyland that is the internet, where everyone knows everything, silly me.

#29 Yes i have and i believe the result shows that Detroit os not willing to correct its past failings but just gloss over them with dumb awards.

ON DESIGN AND EXECUTION:

No way the Lincoln Zephyr beat an Audi A6
Escalade cannot have beaten Range Rover or Q7
Solstice cannot have beaten Jetta

And it seems the awards ignored all the cool european models not sold in the USA, so how representative is that?

Which cars felcher?

looks like one of them are trying ….chrysler

The designers at chrysler seem to be talentless oiks at the moment. The Interior of the new Dodge Dumpster (Caliber) is appalling and Jeep Interiors are stuck in the early 90s

This award ceremony should be investigated by the serious fraud squad. Does anyone believe the results?

“All Agree on Best Premium-Priced Car Interior

That leaves on one interior category: Premium-Priced Car. This was the only overall interior category where both the industry at-large voters and the news media agreed on the winner, and the Lincoln Zephyr interior took the honors.” Both industry and media agreed, so suck it up.

Media and industry differed on Overall Interior but ALL AGREED on the Zephyr….Here’s the rest, try reading it.

New this year were six product feature categories that journalists and the industry at-large also voted on: Best Navigation System, Best Seat System, Best Instrument Cluster, Best Sound System, Best Overall Interior Innovation, and even Best Cup Holder.

The two voting groups showed much more agreement in the interior features categories where they picked the same winner in three of them: Best Navigation System — Acura, manufactured by Alpine; Best Instrument Cluster - - Ford Mustang, by Delphi; and Best Cup Holder — Mercedes M-Class, designed by Fischer Automotive.

Dodge swept the awards by the industry at-large voters in the three other categories: Best Sound System — Dodge Magnum for its Boston Acoustics system; Best (Driver) Seat System — Dodge Charger by Johnson Controls; and Best Interior Innovation — Dodge Grand Caravan, for its Stow N’ Go seats, developed by Chrysler Group and Magna/Intier.

However, members of the media picked three different models for these categories. Their choices were: Best Sound System — Audi S8 for its Bang & Olufsen stereo; Best (Driver) Seat System went to Mercedes for the S-Class; and the Best Interior Innovation was the Honda Ridgeline for its trunk in the pickup bed, developed by Meridian Automotive Systems

Is that the same trunk in the pick-up bed that also has the spare tire mounted in it rendering it almost useless ? And that got an award ? Talk about bias….

How about “Worst Interior of the year” award?

GM would have swept that one. The Escalade and Caddy interiors in general are a crock of ****. They are snazzed up for the photos, but don’t ever knock, push or pull to hard or things will break. My 4 year old nephew could dismantle a GM interior like a lego set

#38 - what make you such an authority ?, where’s the data to support your claims ?

Excuse me, I meant #37 !!! DUH !

I must say. I’ll give it to DCX for that 300C SRT 8. When I found out they were putting a Boston Acoustics system in there, I couldn’t imagine what was next.

And the worst interior award goes to……..*drum rolls plz*…….LEXUS
*Rolls eyes*

omg check out this link to the carconnection…
same article w/ a breakdown of how the “Industry At-Large” and the “News Media” voted ….. WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto_News/Daily_Edition/Daily_Edition_Jun_9_2006.S173.A10505.html

More racists towards domestics…..how predictable.