Mazda and Toyota star in People's Choice

The winners of this year's People's Choice Awards have been announced by the Carsales Network.

Toyota, Mazda and Holden again took most votes from Australian car buyers, with eight wins among them for the 13 categories.

Toyota defended its position as Australia's favourite maker of both Large and Medium SUVs, with the LandCruiser and LandCruiser Prado each winning their category again this year.

Mazda took a hat-trick of wins among the Light, Small and Medium Car categories, with its popular 2, 3 and 6 models. While the Mazda3 and Mazda6 defended their position as most popular in their categories, the great new Mazda2 model pipped Toyota's Yaris for the top spot in the Light Car category this year.

The Holden Commodore is once again Australia's most popular Large Car, holding out the new Ford Falcon and bigger, better Honda Accord for the prize. It's the sixth year running that the big Aussie sedan has won most buyers' attention!

Volkswagen again won the People's Choice Award for its Eos coupe-convertible in the Sports Car category, after winning it for the first time last year.

The all-new Subaru Forester managed to beat Compact SUV contenders the likes of Honda CR-V for this year's award among a hard-fought category.

Land Rover won the Luxury SUV category for the second consecutive year, though this time with the Discovery 3.

Kia was also a repeat winner with the Carnival/Grand Carnival pairing, taking out the Peoplemover category again this year.

Australia's favourite Luxury Car is again the BMW 3 Series, which attracted most buyer interest this year over the likes of the Lexus IS 250 and an all-new Mercedes-Benz C-Class.

Toyota also picked up wins in our Commercial vehicle categories, for both Light Commercial Car with HiLux, and the award for Light Commercial Van with HiAce.

The Carsales Network People's Choice Awards, run by Australia's number one automotive website, carsales.com Ltd, are unique in Australia as the only popular poll of car buyers' favourite vehicles.

Votes are collected from the Carsales Network's wide spectrum of websites, including Australia's number one auto site, carsales.com.au, CarPoint.com.au and Redbook.com.au, as well as leading new car shopping destinations, DiscountNewCars.com.au and PrestigeNewCars.com.au.

From November 1, 2007 to October 31 2008, every time a Carsales Network user placed an enquiry to purchase on one of these sites, the enquiry counted as a vote in the 2008 Carsales Network People's Choice Awards.

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