The minuscule Volkswagen Polo has taken out the biggest prize at the 2010 World Car of the Year awards in New York, a following in the tyre tracks of its larger sibling, the Golf VI.
The minuscule Volkswagen Polo has taken out the biggest prize at the 2010 World Car of the Year awards in New York, a following in the tyre tracks of its larger sibling, the Golf VI.
Fifty-nine judges from all areas of the world, including this writer from Australia, have pored over their computer screens for the past few months, whittling down a preliminary selection list of 30 cars down to one World Car, one Green Car, one World Performance Car and one World Car Design of the Year.
The Polo won out over strong competition from the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and the Toyota Prius.
And Toyota won’t be impressed at the Germans gazumping them in its key category, with the BlueMotion VWs also taking out the Green Car segment. Unfortunately for Toyota, the finalists were whittled down during the height of the Prius braking/steering/crashing scandal…
Performance Car of the Year went to the drool-worthy Audi R8 V10, which we Aussies are yet to see in the metal… From 16 entries, the R8 whipped the Ferrari California and the Porsche 911 GT3 (actually, it must have been a close finish with the Porsche).
And the Chevrolet Camaro, which claims some home-grown input, claimed Design of the Year over the Citroen C3 Picasso and the Kia Soul, and gave GM some good news for a change.
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