Car and Driver's "10Best Cars" for 2011

From the dry lake bed of El Mirage, California, we present these pinnacles of automotive achievement; cars that affirm that, for all the hand-wringing about the coming electrified future, the dinosaurs and the mammals are playing together quite nicely. For the first time ever, we have an electrically powered car on the list, the Chevy Volt. You may have heard of it. But we haven't forsaken its antipode, the Cadillac CTS-V.
Nor have we left off significant events of the past year -- the coming technologies, the best performers, and our pitiless look at this year's winners and losers.

Was it all perfect? No. But perfection is a funny thing -- just ask Toyota. It is elusive. Slippery. None of the winning cars is ultimately perfect, but each one is as close as you can get for less than $80,000. They all fulfill their intended missions; they all make you feel smart; and they all practically grab you by the lapels and pull you in for a drive. More important than actual perfection may be that these cars are constantly evolving toward that impossibility.

The Nominees


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