Four Toyota Models Get Named - Top Rated Vehicles by Edmunds.com

Yet another publication recognizes Toyota vehicles to be the best in their class, as Edmunds.com awarded the 2014 Toyota Prius, Avalon, Highlander and Sienna with its “Top Rated Vehicles” grade.

The 2014 Top Rated Vehicle Awards are determined by Edmunds by evaluating around 200 cars each year, each one of them driven on a standardized road-test loop and at their own test track for further specialized measurements in controlled conditions.

Along with the four models above, Edmunds also named seven more Toyota models in their 2014 Most Popular listing. The winners in their segments included: The RAV4 tops the list in Compact Crossover SUV territory, the Tacoma is the most popular Compact Truck, Avalon in Large Car segment, Tundra as Large Truck, Camry in the Midsize Sedan zone, Highlander topping the Midsize Crossover SUV and Sienna being the most popular Minivan.

‘Slightly’ different from how the Top Rated Vehicles are nominated, the Most Popular models were determined through monthly evaluations of new vehicle shopping consideration during calendar year 2013. “Consideration” means the number of unique visitors during a calendar month to the research and inventory pages on the Edmunds.com desktop site for each new model. The three models in each of 23 vehicle segments with the highest total of monthly car-shopper consideration in calendar year 2013 were named “2014 Most Popular on Edmunds.com.”