2009 World Car of the Year results
Traditionally during New York international car exhibition 59 automobile journalists from 25 world countries (10 Americans, 6 Japanese, 5 Germans, 5 Chinese, some Mexicans, South Africans, Polish and 1 Russian expert) named the best cars of 2009.
So, this year The World Car of the Year (WCOTY) Award by 51 votes got the originator of Golf-class Volkswagen Golf VI of the latest edition. The runner-up from B-class Ford Fiesta and tiny Toyota iQ were also named the leaders in world market innovations.
It is interesting to know that by now over 26 million of all Golfs are sold in over 120 countries. So it was a great present to a company that continued increasing its sales volumes in times its main competitors were forced to in contrast decrease them due to global automobile markets drop. Surely, Volkswagen engineers were extremely glad to produce the mass-oriented car that was named to be the best one. Debuted in 2008 Golf VI has turbo engine 1.4 TSI, fast and economic automatic gear DSG with double traction and multiple shifts rare suspension. Also Golf VI just got 5 stars on EuroNCAP crash-tests. And it seems Golf VI would help VW to beat GM and become the second world largest producer after Toyota Motor Corporation.
As was predicted Fiat 500 got The World Car Design of the Year Award. This Italian car got its first trophy for previously it was awarded to Audi R8 (2008), Audi TT (2007) and Citroen C4 (2007). This year Fiat 500 raced over French Citroen C5 and English Jaguar XF. At the awarding ceremony it was noticed that original Fiat 500 (1957) is an idol in automobile industry and modern 500 model though attractive as the original one but meets all modern engineering standards.
Supercar Nissan GT-R enlarged its titles collection as it was announced The World Sport Car of the Year. Equipped with 3.8 liters, 480 horse powers and 583 Nm torque V6 engine, special tires that allow showing all features of 4-wheel driven car and being accelerated to 100 km/h in 3.6 seconds Nissan GT-R easily beat Porsche 911 Carrera and Chevrolet Corvette Zr1.
Honda FCX was named the most ecological car. This car with hydrogen cells left 22 competitors behind. The thing is that all the contenders to this title had to be available for sales in 2008 at least at one of the biggest world automobile markets and Honda FCX was being successfully sold in North America.
Due to a complexity of certain “green” technologies the Award Commission appointed well-known experts to closely evaluate the specifications and characteristics of all contestants. Then the international jury picked out of 22 cars Honda FCX, iMiEV Mitsubishi and Toyota iQ finally voting for Honda FCX.
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