SEMA just announced its Design Awards for this year's show. The Design Awards are designed to acknowledge the most accessory friendly vehicles for 2007. There were four categories this year as Hybrids joined Cars, Pickups, and SUVs as eligible segments. Not necessarily the BEST designed vehicles in each class, this being SEMA the focus is on how they can be customized. So recipients might not be what everybody would immediately think of when Best and Design are mentioned together. This year's winners were the Ford Shelby GT500 Mustang, the '07 Toyota Tundra, the 4-door Jeep Wrangler, and the Chevy Silverado Hybrid. And in the People's Choice category, which is just labeled Car, the Honda Civic took the honors.
Follow the jump for the other winners.
Accepting the awards were:
Bob Kern, GM's SEMA relations consultant for marketing services
Mustang Program Manager and Chief Engineer Paul Randall from Ford
Ernest Bastien, vice president of vehicle operations at Toyota
Ralph Gilles, Director – Exterior/Interior Product Design and Specialty Vehicles DaimlerChrysler Corporation
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
RickDom @ Nov 1st 2006 6:23PM
I think Aki there either had too much Sake or not quite enough.
Aki @ Nov 1st 2006 10:23PM
I don't drink at all, thank you very much. Do you make racist stereotypes sober or drunk?
Adrian @ Nov 2nd 2006 2:38PM
Hahahahaha. Rick the Racist just got pwned.
Aki @ Nov 3rd 2006 3:52AM
Uh oh, brace for impact--Tundra and Civic mentioned winning some kind of recognition--in one story! Lemme get the angst out of the way for y'all so you don't have to post the same junk.
"Zomg Tundra is so ugly the F-150 is so much better!"
"I can't stand the two-dier dash in the Civic, so ugly!"
"Once again the import-biased media strikes. All US automakers stories are always negative."
"The Tundra grille is so nasty! Looks like a pig!"
"Good job Honda encouraging more ricerboys to add superfluous fiberglass onto their car."