Volkswagen Polo Wins 2010 European Automobile of a Year
Volkswagen’s Polo was officially selected as the 2010 European Automobile of a Year, narrowly beating a Toyota iQ for a endowment. Of a seven cars upon a list, two have been German, dual have been French, asingle is Czech, asingle is Japanese, as well as asingle is technically American.
A Polo pulled in 59 votes, of that TWENTY-FIVE put a automobile in first place. Toyota’s iQ scored TWENTY initial place nods, as well as 58 sum votes. The also-rans embody a Opel/Vauxhall Astra, Skoda Yeti, Mercedes-Benz E-Class, Peugeot 3008, as well as the Citroen C3 Picasso.
VW’s supermini is 7.5 percent lighter than a prior indication, as well as has a five-star reserve rating. Notwithstanding a lighter weight, it has the incomparable boot, as well as bigger physique. A automobile comes with 6 opposite engine options up to a 104-horsepower 1.2-liter TSI petrol.
A endowment was handed down by the row of senior reporters. Participating reporters and editors come from seven opposite European magazines.
Source: autocar
Press Release(Click to expand)
Automobile of the Year 2010: The Brandnew Polo is Car of a Year
General jury – 59 members from 23 European countriesInternational business – 130,000 Polos already systematic worldwide
Wolfsburg/Madrid, THIRTY November 2009 – The brandnew Polo is Automobile of a Year 2010:
Currently a Automobile of a Year jury chose a Volkswagen as series ONE); this is a crowning feat of an unusual year for a brandnew Polo.
“The brandnew Polo stands for German engineering craftsmanship and superior slicing corner record. A fifth era Polo was written to address patron expectations with even larger formidable standards. Which is because you have been ofcourse really gratified to see our efforts certified in the form of this endowment,” says Professor Martin Winterkorn, Authority of a House of Management, Volkswagen Group.
Preference as Automobile of a Year is one of a oldest and many venerable awards in Europe. A most appropriate of all brandnew car introductions have been awarded annually given 1964. The final time a Volkswagen won was in 1992: Behind afterwards a new third era Golf emerged victoriously over a Opel Astra and Citron ZX. In today’s foe, 59 jurors from TWENTY-THREE European countries cast their votes. A new Polo won with 347 points, outpacing the Toyota IQ.
Hakan Matson, boss of a jury, had this to contend during a endowment ceremony in Madrid: “It was a Polo’s extensive reserve apparatus and the modernized operation of engines which tender us a many. On the Polo BlueMotion Volkswagen was additionally means to supplement the really fuel-efficient nonetheless affordable automobile to the automobile programme.”
A Polo’s preference as Automobile of a Year 2010 is a crowning feat of an unusual year for the brandnew Polo after already being declared Best Automobile 2009 by “automobile engine competition” repository as well as winning a Grne (“Immature”) as well as the Goldene Lenkrad (“Golden Steering Circle”) awards by publishinghouse Springer Verlag – as good as a Auto Prize by “Autozeitung” only the couple of days ago.
Not usually was a award jury tender by a brandnew Polo. Given the marketplace launch in May of this year, Volkswagen has perceived over 130,000 orders for a brandnew benchmark automobile of the compress category. A Polo is accessible as the energetic 3-door as well as gentle 5-door in Germany. As a Polo BlueMotion, just THREE) litre fuel expenditure creates it a most fuel-efficient as well as environmentally accessible five-seater in a world.
