The Cars.com Lifestyle Awards

This week, we announced the nominees for Cars.com’s first ever Car of the Year award. We’re doing things a bit differently here at Cars.com: Instead of naming the best sedan, SUV or minivan, we’re giving out awards based on how many people shop for cars, comparing sedans versus SUVs versus minivans, for example. We’ll be naming a Family Car of the Year, Work Car of the Year, Play Car of the Year and Eco-Friendly Car of the Year on Jan. 3.

For now, you can see which cars won in our subcategories. Since families go from that first child until retirement, for example, we broke down Family Cars into Small Families, Big Families, First-Time Drivers and Empty Nesters; one of those four category winners will win the big prize.

While we only show one winner for each segment, there were a number of other expert recommendations. Over the next few weeks leading up to the big announcement, we’ll tell you what other models our reviewers and editors picked before the eventual winner was selected.

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Comments

Once again, Toyota makes the only ecologically-friendly cars. We will all be so much safer and happier when Toyota takes over the world. We can only hope it happens before global warming is irreversible.

What about single guy or girl car of the year? How about Domestic Partnership car of the year? 50% of the US population is single!!!

David,
We have other categories other than Family cars, that was just the one we used as an example.

If you're lucky enough to be single or a couple with no kids you probably have a lot more leeway to buy a "Play" vehicle you lucky SOB.

I think we can figure out how a vehicle was selected. If it had an H in the middle of the grille, it won.