2017 DNA Award Winners
In case you haven’t heard, we unveiled the winners of our second annual Daily News Autos, or DNA, Awards. To compile these awards, we took every vehicle priced less than $100,000, broke them out into 16 categories and picked the winners based on style, performance, safety and value.
Here are the top winners and an explanation of why they were chosen. For a complete list of winners and recommendations, visit www.nudailynews.com/autos
Long on value, space, safety, more value, fit, and finish, Honda’s 2017 Fit easily wins our Daily News Autos City Car award for the second year in a row.
With a stout combination of practicality, drivability, rugged looks, and standard all-wheeldrive for a price almost anyone can get on board with, the Subaru Crosstrek is our 2017 Daily News Autos Award winner in the city SUV category.
With a flavor for every taste, top safety ratings, and purposeful performance and features, the Volkswagen Golf is a small car that receives our substantial recommendation.
Built on a new platform, equipped with a stronger and more protective architecture, and infused with available turbocharged power and torque, the 2017 Honda CR-V is also bigger inside, able to carry people in greater comfort and more cargo than ever before.
With a sleek profile and prominent grille on the outside and a stylish, soft-touch interior, the Mazda6 has a distinct look and feel that make it stand out from its more reserved peers.
With the Pilot, you get a spacious interior that provides comfort on even the longest family excursions. The Honda Pilot’s strong crash-test scores are evidence of its ability to buffer your loved ones in a collision, and this SUV is available with a range of driverassistive technologies that can prevent accidents from happening in the first place.
The first car to offer more than 200 miles of driving range at a mass-market price, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV is a game-changer.
As with most Audis, the visual and tactile treats come into fruition with a lovingly rendered interior, filled with top-notch materials and design.
Equipped with a 2.3-liter EcoBoost 4-cylinder engine, the Focus RS produces a beyond-punchy 350 horsepower and 350 lb.-ft. of torque to hustle about its 3,434-pound curb weight. Mated with a single transmission— a row-your-own sixspeed—and equipped with standard all-wheel drive with dynamic torque vectoring, the Focus RS is engaging, if not demanding, of your attention. From its handsome design, to its stout architecture, to its effortless competence in almost everything it does, it’s simply the one truck that can fulfill all of your towing, hauling, and passenger-carrying needs.
Stylish, enjoyable to drive, loaded with technology, and available with a traditional V6 engine or as a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the roomy Pacifica is both sophisticated and sensible.
The GLC-Class is anything but typical, with its C-Class underpinnings, base output of 241 horsepower, a 60 mph sprint time of 6.4 seconds and a twin-turbo V6 AMG iteration.
The S-Class is a leader in terms of space, quietness, refinement, and entertainment, and packages these traits in a variety of ways.