Here's the full list in alphabetical order — including how many years they've been on the list — after the press release below.

CAR AND DRIVER ANNOUNCES "10BEST" CARS FOR 2010

Imports Continue to Reign Supreme

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 2, 2009 – As the most tumultuous year in the history of the automotive industry draws to a close, Car and Driver magazine, the world's No. 1 automotive enthusiast publication, this week announced its 28th annual list of 10Best cars sold in America. With only two of the ten cars included on this year's list manufactured by US car companies, evidence continues to mount that American manufacturers still have a ways to go to catch up with many of the imports.

A positive sign of the times for an US car manufacturer is the fact the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid made the coveted list as only the second hybrid ever to be included. The Toyota Prius made the list in 2004.

Following are the 2010 Car and Driver 10Best winners (in alphabetical order), followed by the number of times each model has made the list:

NAME: 2010 Audi S4
YEARS ON LIST: 2

NAME: 2010 BMW 3-Series / M3
YEARS ON LIST: 19

NAME: 2010 Cadillac CTS / CTS-V
YEARS ON LIST: 2

NAME: 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
YEARS ON LIST: 1

NAME: 2010 Honda Accord
YEARS ON LIST: 24

NAME: 2010 Honda Fit
YEARS ON LIST: 3

NAME: 2010 Mazda MX-5 Miata
YEARS ON LIST: 11

NAME: 2010 Mazda 3 / Mazdaspeed 3
YEARS ON LIST: 3

NAME: 2010 Porsche Boxster / Cayman
YEARS ON LIST: 3

NAME: 2010 Volkswagen GTI
YEARS ON LIST: 7

Photo + Mechanic's credit: Kerry Pierno and Darren Barrone
Video credit: Al Navarro

John Heinricy in CTS-V: 2:46:560
Aaron Link in CTS-V: 2:48:902
Brian Redman in CTS-V: 2:49:596
Michael Cooper in BMW M3: 2:50:424
Jack Baruth in CTS-V: 2:51:153
Lawrence Ulrich in CTS-V: 2:53:157
Bob Lutz in CTS-V: 2:56:321
Michael Mainwald in BMW M5: 3:05:398
Wes Siler in Mitsubishi Evo: 3:08:126
Chris Fairman in CTS-V: 3:14:292
Archan Basu in Jaguar XF: 3:15:670
Tom Loder in Audi RS4: 3:15:702

Secondly, there's standing water on the track. Advantage: Jalopnik.

Hmm, maybe the Evo — the people's car — was the better choice after all. We'll see. Siler's out practicing as we speak.

Despite being more similar in weight and size than you'd expect, the Evo is still significantly lighter and smaller than the CTS-V, but the Cadillac obviously has a huge power and torque advantage. Perhaps more tellingly, the Evo can lap the 12.93 miles of fast corners on the Nurburgring within 12 seconds of the CTS-V. Tomorrow, we'll see what that gap looks like after 4.1 miles of tight turns and one long straight.

As always, it's filled with maximum hyperbole. What more should we expect — his product's making the rest of the luxury sedan landscape look like a bunch of also-rans. The breathless Josh Oliver from The GM Source asked him what his reaction was to Jaguar's early pull-out. Here's the response from Bob:

I think it means that the European high-performance sedans are excellent, even superb cars, but quite possibly not ready for racing laps right out of the show-room. The CTS-V is not only quicker, but will, in totally untweaked, stock form, run hot laps at any race track until it runs out of fuel. Transmission oil and diff oil temps are stable, engine oil temp doesn't go up, brakes get a bit more pedal travel, but don't fade. The street tires get a tad greasy, but handling and control remain excellent. "May the best car win"! (It wins automatically if the competitors won't show up!)

He's right. He's already gotten the best of Mercedes, Jaguar and Audi. We've yet to hear from BMW or Porsche — so please, feel free to e-mail me below if you're interested in, you know, standing up for your honor.

If you're not sure what's going on — here's the back-story. In a media conference call last month, while announcing the General's new "May The Best Car Win" marketing campaign, Bob Lutz told journalists he'd race a CTS-V versus any production car on Laguna Seca out west. Matt Hardigree came up with the idea to call him out on his shenanigans. I agreed he should let Bob know we'd be willing to put Jalopnik's road test editor Wes Siler up against the "Maximum Madman." Lutz accepted and now it's on. Yes, that's right, we'll be racing Bob in a Jaguar XFR (Mercedes wasn't too keen on the idea of the C63 AMG vs the CTS-V, but that's OK, we're comfortable with the XFR) and better news? You can be there too.

Do you want to have a go at Wes and Bob in your own production vehicle? Here's how it's going to work.

● You go to Fastlane and read Bob's post.

● Then go to this website and sign up.

● Then we help pick the folks we'll see at Monticello.

● Then it's on like Donkey Kong on October 29th.

"Cadillac CTS-V Wagon is on. GM source has confirmed to me that CTS-V Wagon will exist along with the sedan and coupe.^SO"

[Via Inside_Line Twitter]

The challenge took place earlier today on a conference call about GM's new marketing campaign: "May The Best Car Win." The theme of the campaign is the numerous new vehicles produced by GM that are as good, or better than, the competition. Given the GM products we've driven lately, we're not surprised they'd be pushing this message.

And to prove it, 77-year-old Bob Lutz told reporters he would challenge anyone in any production sedan to a race around Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway and try to beat him.

We're not sure he expected anyone to take him up on the challenge but we couldn't let it stand. We love the CTS-V, but we're at least going to try. So we told him we'd do it if he named the time and the place, and he accepted.

The details have yet to be worked out, but Lutz already told us and the assembled reporters "You're running into a trap because if you beat me by a second on the lap time, we'll just advertise the price difference."

We'll see...

That's a good question. Whereas once we were told the CTS-V Coupe was "still being looked at," as of Friday we've been told it's not only a "go" — it's coming in May alongside the plain ol' CTS Coupe. Can someone say M6 Coupe-killer?