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Global Competition “World Car of the Year” (WCOTY) is remarkable in that predict the results quite difficult. But the jury of professional automotive journalists are so diverse and represents so many different regions, that some national and regional peculiarities and predilections don’t play a significant role in the final selection. The winner will have to please everyone.

The jury assessed each model in terms of technical innovation, cost, safety, environmental friendliness, as well as the emotional component. From this list, the world’s best recognized Honored model VW Golf next generation, the representatives of the jury also impressed with layout of a compact Toyota iQ and a fresh perspective on the world car of the new Ford Fiesta. The final choice of a “World Car of the Year” is made of the trio. Throughout the short history of the competition WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR even one brand could not win it twice. The tradition is continued in 2009.
WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR is so good because it is not tied to a specific region. The jury of the competition includes 59 automotive journalists from different countries up to Mexico to South Africa. Have the greatest representation of the country with a developed automobile industry and automobile market: ten Americans, six Japanese, five Germans, five Chinese.

In different parts of the world people have different tastes: if the U.S. hamburger? High beer, and in Russia prefer dumplings with vodka, the average Japanese will die from the normal portions of American food, or a normal dose of Russian vodka. And if all three have to agree on the best meal together, it will have to stay in the Italian pasta. The same with cars – the winner must arrange WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR representatives of all countries.

11 finalists WCOTY 2009

• Audi A4
• BMW 7-Series
• Citroen C5
• FIAT 500
• Ford Fiesta
• Honda Jazz
• Jaguar XF
• Mazda6
• Nissan GT-R
• Toyota iQ
• Volkswagen Golf VI

“World Car of the Year”
2005 – Audi A6
2006 – BMW 3-Series
2007 – Lexus LS460
2008 – Mazda2
2009:

• Ford Fiesta
• Toyota iQ
• Volkswagen Golf VI

The VW Golf, whose design is inspired from the Scirocco is the world car of the year 2009. The VW Golf is by far the best selling VW model in the world. 26 million Golfs have been dispatched to customers in 120 countries since the beginning.
Similarly defined and finalists among sports cars. For the victory here will be competing not only the three models, but the three approaches, the philosophy of the three sports models from the U.S., Japan and Germany. In past years, victory was always a German school, and the last two years – for the models of Audi.
“The best sports car”
2006 – Porsche Cayman S
2007 – Audi RS4
2008 – Audi R8
2009:

• Corvette ZR1
• Nissan GT-R
• Porsche 911 Carrera

Four respected world expert in automotive design selected three nominees for the title of “Car Design of the Year. The experts were two representatives of the best European magazine Auto & Design, published by Italy, Silvia Baruffaldi (Silvia Baruffaldi) and Robert Kamberford (Robert Cumberford), the legendary, already white-haired Japanese Akira Fujimoto (Akira Fujimoto) – permanent editor in chief of Car Styling, which can always be found at the Moscow Motor Show, as well as Tom Matano (Tom Matano) – Head of the School of Industrial Design (School of Industrial Design) from San Francisco. The most beautiful cars in the competition WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR same as in AutoNews.ru up to 2008.
“Automotive design of the Year  2009”
2006 – Citroen C4
2007 – Audi TT
2008 – Audi R8
2009:

• Citroen C5
• FIAT 500
• Jaguar XF

To determine the best “green” car and met only a handful of experts representing North America, Europe and Asia. In the three finalists out of three Japanese models, professing a different approach to solving environmental problems of the car. Model of Honda’s hydrogen fuel cells, Mitsubishi is all-electric car, but Toyota has achieved success through an ultra-compact car with a very small, but efficient internal combustion engine.
“The Best Green Car”
2006 – Honda Civic Hybrid
2007 – Mercedes-Benz E320 Bluetec
2008 – BMW 118d with Efficient Dynamics
2009:

• Honda FCX Clarity
• Mitsubishi iMiEV
• Toyota iQ

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