Canadians select Volkswagen GTI as their Automobile of a Year
[Source: AJAC]
PRESS RELEASE
TORONTO (Ontario) Thursday, Feb 11, 2010 – In an early morning press discussion during a opening of the Canadian International Automobile Show in Toronto, the Volkswagen Golf GTI was declared the 2010 Canadian Car of the Year (CCOTY) by the Automobile Reporters Association of Canada (AJAC).
The Volkswagen Golf GTI beat nine alternative “best new” category winners, voiced Oct 30, 2009 to win top honours. John White, President as well as CEO, Volkswagen Organisation Canada Inc. commented, “We have been really unapproachable to win this very prestigious endowment and wish to appreciate the AJAC members for bestowing this recognition upon our car. A Golf GTI is the heart as well as soul of Volkswagen. To have a Golf GTI declared Canadian Car of a Year today by Canada’s automotive media is a really unapproachable moment for us, intruth, as well as represents a culmination of the hard work upon the part of everyone in the Volkswagen Brand around the world.”
AJAC’s Canadian Automobile of the Year Awards chair, Richard Russell, said: “AJAC has been conducting and perfecting the
Canadian Car and Application Car of the year program for more than dual decades. By constantly adjusting the program as well as
testing procedures to reflect what is important to Canadian consumers, you feel you have the some-more consummate, unbiased as well as
meaningful endowment than any alternative. It is heartening to learn from eccentric research which Canadians recognize the
stress of the award. You will continue to essay to live up to that certitude.”
AJAC’s annual Canadian Car of the Year awards program was created in 1985 with a role of onconditionthat consumers with sound, comparative information on vehicles that have be en brandnew to the marketplace. Distinct other awards, this is not the recognition contest based on the opinions of the few people. The winners are dynamic upon a multiple of measured contribution as well as subjective evaluations of more than 20 parameters by approximately 70 journalists – some-more than 46,000 pieces of interpretation in all. And most importantly, they have been based upon actual contrast of a vehicles– back-to-back; on the sam e roads and in the same conditions on the same day.
A opinion formula that determined today’s winners are accessible to consumers as the apparatus buying guide on the AJAC web site. Additionally available are a analogous exam data derived from the journalists’ extensive four day evaluation of more than 150 new vehicles in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario in Oct. This annual event is wellknown in the industry as “TestFest”. Bombard Canada is the central fuel supplier of a event.
A severe TestFest analysis program includes real universe driving on open roads – exactly where consumers drive so which a exam as well as vote formula posted to the AJAC web site are directly relevant to potential car and truck buyers. Still looking to buy the 2009, 2008, or even a 2007 vehicle? AJAC arc hives the comparative test data from previous years upon the web site.
Photos from today’s endowment announcements, the October 30th difficulty winners, and the TestFest evaluation eventuality, have been available for print and promote media underneath
