New Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards announced

An all-new vehicle award program by Kelley Blue Book www.kbb.com will honor the top new model vehicle choices available in the U.S. market and will honor an overall winner. The winners of the 2015 Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards will be announced in November on the eve of the Los Angeles International Auto Show.

The all-new, premier awards program is designed to provide expert guidance to American new-car buyers by identifying the highest-value 2015 model-year vehicles in 12 different categories from a field of 49 finalists drawn from more than 300 models on the U.S. market today.

Singling out the highest quality and value

"With the all-new Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards, we aim to provide a significant consumer service by identifying 2015 model-year vehicles that our expert evaluators believe to be the absolute best-value choices for new-car shoppers," said Jack R. Nerad, executive editorial director and executive market analyst for Kelley Blue Book’s KBB.com. "The Kelley Blue Book Best Buys will represent the highest level of quality and value of all vehicles available in the American market. While at the conclusion of the testing and evaluation period only 12 prestigious models will be deemed the 2015 Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Award winners, it is a very high honor for a vehicle to be chosen as a finalist for these prominent awards."

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The 12 categories include: Small Car; Small SUVs; Performance Cars; Mid-Size Cars; Midsize SUVs; Full-Size Cars; Full-Size SUVs; Luxury Cars; Luxury SUVs; Electric/Hybrids; Trucks, and Minivans.

"Because there are so many varying needs and wants of car shoppers, we felt it was important to name a very prestigious and limited, yet still very diverse group of Best Buys in different categories that span the majority of segments most popular in the United States," Nerad concluded.

Look for extensive coverage of the 2015 Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Awards here on KBB.com in mid-November.