Cars.com Names the 2011 Hyundai Elantra the 'Best Value: Price to ...

Press Release Source: Cars.com On Monday June 13, 2011, 7:00 am EDT

CHICAGO, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cars.com, a the majority important in,within reserve for new and second-hand car buyers, announced nowadays so as to the 2011 Hyundai Elantra is the winner of its 'Best Value: Price to Pump' award as the winner of its Under 20/Over 35 Shootout. The site's editors evaluated five compact cars so as to seat five, get improved supposed 35 on foot per gallon and contain a cost tag beneath $20,000. The 2011 Hyundai Elantra came out on top for its exterior and center plan as healthy as its smooth ride.

"With unrelenting gas management and continued financial uncertainty, our shootout couldn't be timelier in conditions of come again? car shoppers are charitable for," supposed Patrick Olsen, Cars.com editor-in-chief. "In fact, four of the five heavy so as to competed contain person's name in the center of dealer's the majority excellent sellers in April and May.  Based on our results, each car customer charitable in petroleum segment wants to put the 2011 Hyundai Elantra at the top of completely thought set. Not merely fake petroleum car get 40 mpg on the highway, the Elantra too has refined styling, solid handling, a at ease center and hard to believe affordability for all the skin so as to management determination get."

To decide the winner of the shootout, self-governing as of Cars.com and USA Today and a Chicago-area family put the contenders from side to side a diversity of tests in excess of a series of inquisitiveness days.  Tests built-in a day-long drive to decide precise real-world mileage, back-to-back heavy by all judges on the similar route to decide handling and soothe and a side-by-side comparison of the cars' skin and styling.  

"These shootouts are actually concerning formative the the majority excellent car in a segment," Olsen said. "Because of that, we forever comprise a filled day of testing by shoppers who assess the cars' features, comfort, handling and styling.  This theater us to decide come again? actually matters to drivers in a car and so as to feedback contributes to the crowning of our winner."

Cars.com's 'Best Value: Price to Pump' rankings:

1. Hyundai Elantra ($17,760)
2. Chevrolet Cruze ($19,445)
3. Honda Civic ($18,655)
4. Kia Forte ($18,345)
5. Ford Focus ($19,750)

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