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

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

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

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?

This is complete BOLLOCKS

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.

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.

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.

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.

Toot toot goes the detroit horn!

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

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