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Strategic Vision announces 2009 Total Value Awards

Toyota bumped, VW and Ford lead The 2009 Total Value Awards have been announced, and what do you know, it's more good news for Ford. First, a primer: the "the Total Value Index™" (TVI) took into account more than 48,000 buyers of 2009 models from September, 2008 to March, 2009. Assumptions made by owners of the car – expected reliability, fuel economy, price, etc – are then weighed against "the variables that make up the ownership experience," and voila, you have the TVI. In last year's awards, Toyota took the top spot ... Read more →

Spike announces nominees for Best Driving Game of the Year Jonathon Ramsey

Spike TV has opened up the voting for its Video Game Awards, and the finalists are down to four: DiRT 2, Need for Speed: Shift, Forza Motorsport 3, and Gran Turismo PSP. It's a bit of a motley ...

Oh, Canada! Great White North journos pick their cars of the year Chris Shunk

Guess what boys and girls, the auto show season is ramping up and that means the constant flow of Car of the Year awards is upon us. The biggest auto show award in our quaint little hemisphere is ...

Gran Turismo creator to select Best in Show at SEMA that will be featured in upcoming game Noah Joseph

Each year at SEMA, a select group of editors and contributors from the world's largest automotive publications scour the show floor to hand out prizes for the best hot rod, Japanese import, European ...

Ford F-150 SVT Raptor named 2010 Truck of Texas Jonathon Ramsey

It's no secret that the Texas Auto Writer's Association loves Ford trucks: The Blue Oval's F-Series pickups have won the Truck of Texas award six straight times. Actually, you can make that seven ...

Twelve Angry Bloggers - Autoblog gets jury duty... the good kind 7 months ago on Autoblog

The Internet has finally assembled its own collection of esteemed digital-only auto scribes to anoint vehicles as the Internet Car of the Year and Internet Truck of the Year, while also putting a new twist on traditional awards. Rather than just hold closed-door meetings to draw names from a hat, ...

"Marquis DeSoto" wins NY Times' Collectible Car of the Year award 9 months ago on Autoblog

It is neither a Mercury Grand Marquis nor a DeSoto, but perhaps it could be considered a kind of royalty. Furniture maker Steve Heller wanted to build a car of his own design, and possessed of a love of Fifties car details, he swiped the things he liked and built what he calls the "Marquis de ...

Hyund-"eh" Genesis wins Canadian Car of the Year Award 9 months ago on Autoblog

Another trophy has been thrown at the Hyundai Genesis by the Automobile Journalists' Association of Canada: 2009 Canadian Car of the Year. To get to the top spot, the Genesis beat an odd assortment of cars, including the Audi A4 and TTS, the Lexus IS F, Mazda6, and Mercedes CL550 and SL63 AMG. ...

Jaguar XF does the double, wins What Car? award again 10 months ago on Autoblog

Somebody get the record player out and put on Al Stewart, because this is turning into The Year of the Cat. The English marque just showed off the new XFR and XKR, a slightly modified XFR broke the company's speed record formerly held by the Jaguar XJ220, and chatter suggests that the automaker is ...

Detroit 2009: Hyundai Genesis, Ford F-150 win North American Car and Truck of the Year 10 months ago on Autoblog

Like an automotive continuation of the BCS bowls, winners were crowned for the 16th North American Car of the Year and North American Truck of the Year awards at the Detroit Auto Show this morning. Voted on by 50 automotive journalists in various media from the U.S. and Canada (where's Mexico?), ...

Autosport's Car of the Year? The Ginetta G50 11 months ago on Autoblog

Lawrence Tomlinson bought historic British car maker Ginetta in 2005, and in just three years his team has hit it over the wall with the maker's first car under his tenure: the Ginetta G50, has taken Autosport's number one slot in its Top 10 Cars of the Year. The G50's attractions are obvious: It ...

Finalists announced for Green Car Journal's Green Car Vision Award 11 months ago on Autoblog

The Green Car Vision awards celebrate a car that's got its headlights pointed down the road of the future. Among this year's five finalists are two serial hybrids (Chevrolet Volt and Fisker Karma) two electric cars (MINI E and Mitsubishi i-MiEV), and one hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (Honda FCX ...

HUMMER H3T declared Pickup Truck of the Year by Four Wheeler 11 months ago on Autoblog

HUMMER might be getting shown the door, but it's not going to leave without taking some of the silverware. Four Wheeler magazine put the marque's newest brute, the H3T Alpha, up against the Dodge Ram, Ford F-150, and... um... the Suzuki Equator (bet you didn't see that one coming), and the ...

Volvo for Life Grand Award winner chosen 1 year ago on Autoblog

At New York's Cipriani restaurant on 42nd Street, Volvo presented its sixth annual Volvo for Life Awards and named Marilyn Adams the Grand Award Winner in the Safety category. The panel of judges -- including Hank Aaron, Sen. Bill Bradley, Maya Lin, Dr. Sally Ride, Dr. Mae Jemison, Eunice Kennedy ...

AutoWeek picks Best of Show and honors others from Detroit 1 year ago on Autoblog

Here's a way to create content long after an auto show has ended, dream up a list of editorial favorite picks. Well, what the hell, we might as well be meta and report on the anti-news. Here we go blithely. AutoWeek handed out its Editors' Choice awards for the North American International Auto Show ...

Honda has APEAL: wins most segments in JD Power's rankings 2 years ago on Autoblog

Honda took four categories in the latest J.D. Power's 2007 Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study. APEAL measures how happy an owner is with the design, content, layout, and performance of their car within 90 days of purchase. When the votes were tallied from the 91,000 ...

The Jaguar X-Type is voted ... ahem ... "Best aspirational luxury car" 2 years ago on Autoblog

The results are in from the latest automotive consulting firm you've never heard of. According to AutoPacific's Vehicle Survey Award, the Jaguar X-Type took top honors in the 2007 Aspirational Luxury Car segment. The survey asks 24,000 US new car buyers how they rank their car 60-90 days after ...

Automotive Webbies announced 2 years ago on Autoblog

The 11th Annual Webby Awards are just around the corner, and out of 8,000 nominations in 100+ categories the final nominees have been announced. In the category of Best Automotive Site of the Year, last year's winner, AMG, will be handing over its crown to one of this year's finalists, which include ...

Volvo names America's Greatest Hometown Hero for 2007 2 years ago on Autoblog

At New York's Cipriani restaurant on 42nd Street, Volvo presented its fifth annual Volvo for Life Awards and named Rose Mapendo, an African refugee and mother of ten, as its Grand Award Winner in the Quality of Life category. The panel of judges -- who included Caroline Kennedy, Maya Lin, Paul ...

Readers choose best of 2007 for Auto Motor und Sport 2 years ago on Autoblog

When the people speak, we listen. And apparently so does the German buff book, Auto Motor Und Sport. They polled 100,000 of their own readers and asked them to list their favorite vehicles in ten different segments. Each segment was broken into two categories: Domestic (German brands) and Import. ...

R.L. Polk hands out awards for loyalty; GM and Toyota clean up 2 years ago on Autoblog

R.L. Polk & Co. announced the winners of its 11th Automotive Loyalty Awards during the 2007 Automotive News World Congress a week or so ago. Some of the companies and cars that won may surprise you. First off, General Motors won the Overall Manufacturer award... for the seventh consecutive ...

S-Class receives a variety of obscure awards 3 years ago on Autoblog

The Borneo Bulletin reports that the German marque's new S-Class has received several awards of excellence. The honors include: Newspaper Bild am Sonntag awarded the luxury sedan its "Golden Steering Wheel." Top Gear awarded it the "Limousine of the Year" due to the S-Class relaxing effects ...

New York Auto Show: BMW 3-Series named World Car of the Year 3 years ago on Autoblog

BMW continues its indomitable ways with the 3-Series by taking home the trophy for the 2006 World Car of the Year Award presented by the Midway Group. World Car jurors initially chose 27 candidates, which were later whittled down to three: the BMW 3-Series, Mazda MX-5 and Porsche Cayman S. The ...

Automotive News PACE finalists announced 3 years ago on Autoblog

Each year, Automotive News honors automotive suppliers who have developed products that are innovative to the industry. Some of the twenty-two finalists this year include: Delphi Adaptive Dual-depth Passenger Airbag by Delphi Corp (pictured). CrafTec Partial Mold-Behind by Johnson Controls, ...






Autoblog Podcast #154: Gobbling up the News

Chris, Sam, and Dan kick out a podcast just in time for the long holiday drive.

 
 

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