MOTOR TREND Ranks the Top 50 Industry Players with 2005 Power List

LOS ANGELES--Jan. 7, 2005--MOTOR TREND magazine, the world's number one automotive authority and part of the PRIMEDIA Consumer Automotive Group, today announced its first annual Power List rankings. Recognizing the real power in the auto business isn't always under the hood, the editors at MOTOR TREND have selected the top 50 automotive industry people who matter most. MOTOR TREND's 2005 Power List ranks these players by influence and impact on the automotive landscape and highlights the significant contributions that earned them a place on the list.

"It is important to realize cars are created by people," said Angus MacKenzie, editor-in-chief, MOTOR TREND. "The auto industry is one of the few industries where a single person can completely transform a company's product line, brand image and influence consumers through their vision, talent and expertise."

MacKenzie continued, "This industry is one of the biggest, most dynamic and exciting in the world and our readers want to know about the people who decide what we drive and when we drive it. For this reason, we created the Power List to recognize those we've seen have a significant effect on the way we drive, buy and think about cars."

The following is the top ten list of MOTOR TREND's 50 rankings for
2005:

#1 Carlos Ghosn - Nissan Motor Corporation CEO
#2 Bob Lutz - GM North America chairman and vice chairman, product
development
#3 Bernd Pischetsrieder - Volkswagen AG chairman
#4 Dieter Zetsche - Chrysler Group president
#5 Burkhard Goeschel - BMW AG management board member
#6 Wendelin Wiedeking - Porsche AG executive board chairman and
chief executive director
#7 G. Richard Wagoner - General Motors Corporation chairman
#8 Fujio Cho - Toyota Motor Corporation president
#9 Jurgen Schrempp - DaimlerChrysler chairman
#10 J Mays - Ford Motor Company group vice president, design

Additional personalities of note on the Power List include:

#13 Ralph Gilles - Director of Chrysler Group design office
#15 William Clay Ford Jr. - Ford Motor Company chairman, CEO
#17 Kazunori Yamauchi - Creator, Grand Turismo
#34 Anne Asensio - GM executive director of advanced design
#50 Dale Earnhart Jr. - Nextel Cup driver

The complete list of this year's top 50 Power List rankings can be found in the February 2005 issue of MOTOR TREND on newsstands now, or by contacting Jocelyn Johnson at jjohnson@sloanepr.com.

About MOTOR TREND

MOTOR TREND, a PRIMEDIA publication, was founded in 1949 and has a circulation of 1.1 million and a total readership of 7.1 million. Internationally recognized as the world's number one automotive authority, MOTOR TREND is one of the leading brands in automotive publishing. The MOTOR TREND brand is comprised of motortrend.com; MOTOR TREND Television; MOTOR TREND Radio; Truck Trend; MOTOR TREND International Auto Shows; MOTOR TREND en Espanol; and the renowned MOTOR TREND Car, Sport/Utility and Truck of the Year Awards program.