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Every year I realize more and more the stupidity of the premise of Motor Trend's Car of the Year competition. The exhaustive testing is great and trustworthy. I accept their opinions, too. But one car out of all the new models receives recognition? It's not directly compared with older members of its segment even though Motor Trend insists that the comparison isn't with the cars in the test. What's worse, Motor Trend pays no regard to reality and ends up naming the Nissan GT-R (we already knew it was the best car of the year, but we're real people MT) or the Ford Thunderbird or Volkswagen New Beetle. Sometimes MT gets it right, with cars like the Infiniti G35 or Honda Civic.Â
- Evo Pits Mercedes Sls Amg Black Series Against Porsche’s 911 Gt2 Rs
While Mercedes-Benz will continue production of the SLS AMG supercar until the middle of this year, Porsche’s 997-based 911 GT2 RS is no longer manufactured. However, that didn’t stop EVO’s Jethro Bovingdon from testing both cars...
- 2012 Honda Cr-v Video Roundup: First Test Drives And Commercial
Being that's only a matter of weeks before the new CR-V arrives in Honda's showrooms across the United States, it doesn't come to much of a surprise that the media has already had some time behind the wheel of the Japanese maker's crossover...
- Japanese Grudge Match: Nissan Gt-r Vs. Lexus Lfa
There's only so much that can be said about a drag race between a Nissan GT-R and the Lexus LFA. It's a traditional competition pitting Japan's two Euro-fighting high-tech supercars against each other in an attempt to figure out which one...
- Gm's Opel Insignia 'car Of The Year 2009' - Ford Fiesta Comes In Second, Vw Golf Third
For the first time in 22 years, a General Motors vehicle has been voted 'Car of the Year' (COTY) in Europe. The brand-new Opel insignia gathered a total of 321 points beating the second Ford Fiesta by the narrowest possible margin - a solitary...
- Motor Trend Names Subaru Forester Its Suv Of The Year
On its website, California-based Motor Trend has announced that the Subaru Forester is their SUV of the Year. Other SUVOTY contenders included the BMW X6, Infiniti FX and EX35, Honda Pilot, Kia Borrego, Chevrolet Traverse, Dodge Journey, Volkswagen Tiguan,...
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evo STARTS ITS CAR OF THE YEAR TESTING
Every year I realize more and more the stupidity of the premise of Motor Trend's Car of the Year competition. The exhaustive testing is great and trustworthy. I accept their opinions, too. But one car out of all the new models receives recognition? It's not directly compared with older members of its segment even though Motor Trend insists that the comparison isn't with the cars in the test. What's worse, Motor Trend pays no regard to reality and ends up naming the Nissan GT-R (we already knew it was the best car of the year, but we're real people MT) or the Ford Thunderbird or Volkswagen New Beetle. Sometimes MT gets it right, with cars like the Infiniti G35 or Honda Civic. I regret, then, that evo magazine's COTY works on a similar premise and is somehow unforgettable and amazing. The difference? evo is rarely in touch with reality and we don't expect them to be. Track cars, rare run-out models of French hatchbacks, insane supercars.... anything goes. Well, anything that has already pleased the evo editors. The British magazine places no emphasis on price - and we know that starting the first page of the feature. Rather, evo wants to find the car that best fulfills their motto, "The Thrill of Driving". It doesn't matter if that car is embarrassingly inexpensive or prohibitively expensive. Part 1 of evo's COTY competition is in video preview below. Watch it.
- Evo Pits Mercedes Sls Amg Black Series Against Porsche’s 911 Gt2 Rs
While Mercedes-Benz will continue production of the SLS AMG supercar until the middle of this year, Porsche’s 997-based 911 GT2 RS is no longer manufactured. However, that didn’t stop EVO’s Jethro Bovingdon from testing both cars...
- 2012 Honda Cr-v Video Roundup: First Test Drives And Commercial
Being that's only a matter of weeks before the new CR-V arrives in Honda's showrooms across the United States, it doesn't come to much of a surprise that the media has already had some time behind the wheel of the Japanese maker's crossover...
- Japanese Grudge Match: Nissan Gt-r Vs. Lexus Lfa
There's only so much that can be said about a drag race between a Nissan GT-R and the Lexus LFA. It's a traditional competition pitting Japan's two Euro-fighting high-tech supercars against each other in an attempt to figure out which one...
- Gm's Opel Insignia 'car Of The Year 2009' - Ford Fiesta Comes In Second, Vw Golf Third
For the first time in 22 years, a General Motors vehicle has been voted 'Car of the Year' (COTY) in Europe. The brand-new Opel insignia gathered a total of 321 points beating the second Ford Fiesta by the narrowest possible margin - a solitary...
- Motor Trend Names Subaru Forester Its Suv Of The Year
On its website, California-based Motor Trend has announced that the Subaru Forester is their SUV of the Year. Other SUVOTY contenders included the BMW X6, Infiniti FX and EX35, Honda Pilot, Kia Borrego, Chevrolet Traverse, Dodge Journey, Volkswagen Tiguan,...