Designing With Passion: AutoWeek Announces Editors' Choice Awards From Frankfurt Motor Show

    DETROIT, Sept. 21 AutoWeek magazine has announced its 2001
Editors' Choice Awards from the Frankfurt Motor Show.
    For more than a decade, the AutoWeek Editors' Choice Awards have
recognized those vehicles the magazine's editorial staff selects as the Most
Significant, Most Fun, Best Concept and Best in Show models at each major auto
show around the world.
    The AutoWeek Editors' Choice Awards from the 2001 Frankfurt Motor Show
are:
    Most Fun:  Maserati Spyder.  "There were any number of cars that could
have won the 'Most Fun' title, but how can you not enjoy yourself with a fiery
red Maserati convertible?" Mandel asks.
    Best Concept:  Audi Avantissimo.  "Make no mistake:  while this might be
the 'Best Concept' winner," Mandel says, "the Audi Avantissimo clearly shows
the world what the next Audi A8, and hence the entire future family of Audis,
will be like.  We like what we see."
    Most Significant:  BMW 7 Series.  "BMW earns the 'Most Significant' status
for its top-line sedan because of what it says about the direction of the
company.  Its polarizing style will have people abuzz at the country club,"
says Dutch Mandel, AutoWeek Editor and Associate Publisher.
    Best in Show:  Lamborghini Murcielago.  "The first new Lambo in more than
a decade says supercar all over it.  Every kid, no matter what age, will be
doodling its lines in classrooms and corporate meetings for the next 10
years," says Mandel.

    Visit autoweek.com for live coverage of the Frankfurt Motor Show including
photos, news and the Editors' Choice winners.  The Frankfurt Editors' Choice
award winner feature story is scheduled for the September 24 issue of AutoWeek
magazine.
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