Sentences with phrase «european car of the year»

The first American car to employ front - wheel - drive since the 1937 Cord, the Toronado was named as Motor Trend's Car of the Year — and it was also the only American car to with the European Car of the Year award.

The Mazda6 was second place in the 2003 European Car of the Year awards and made Car and Driver magazine's Ten Best list for 2003.

It predates the European Car of the Year award begun in 1964.

Already nominated for the prestigious European Car Of The Year award 2014, the third generation Octavia has quickly made its way to... Read More

Safety was a high priority in the Mondeo design, with a driver's side airbag (it was the first ever car sold from the beginning with a driver's airbag in all of its versions, which helped it achieve the European Car of the Year title for 1994), side - impact bars, seat belt pretensioners, and antilock braking systems (higher models) as standard features.

In 1973, the Civic ranked third in the European Car of the Year awards, the highest ranking for a Japanese vehicle at that time.

The Nissan Leaf received multiple industry awards including European Car Of The Year for 2011, World Car Of The Year in 2011, Kelly Blue Book's Number One Green Car in 2011, and the Green Car Vision Award in 2010.

The Car of the Year jury has made the announcement: the Peugeot 3008 is 2017 European Car of the Year.

The Regal's development is rooted in Germany, where the globally led engineering team created the award - winning Opel Insignia — the 2009 European Car of the Year.

The European Car of the Year Finalists have been announced with seven nominees chosen from a list of 32 candidates.

The SUV also managed to bag top honours at the 2018 European Car of the Year awards.

The current Fiat 500 has been sold in Europe since 2007 and was named European Car Of The Year in 2008.

The Australian portfolio will include the new generation Opel vehicles Insignia, European Car of the Year 2009, award - winning Astra and the recently upgraded Corsa with the complete model line - up and dealer network to be announced closer to launch.

It's a massive step up over the old 307, and was even awarded European Car of the Year by an independent judging panel in 2014.

The new Volkswagen Passat wins the European car of the year 2015 award beating the Mercedes C - Class and BMW 2 - Series by a good margin.

Mi16 has been available overseas for about 16 months and recently was named European Car of the Year.

Winner of the 2014 European Car of the Year award, the Peugeot 308 is the French VW Golf, only cheaper.

This was the brand's strongest full - year performance in a decade, driven by sales of the Jaguar XF and the new Jaguar XE, which has recently been shortlisted for the European Car of The Year 2016.

days and was looking very very closely at a Peugeot 308 SW, the wagon version of the new Peugeot 308 which recently won the 2014 European Car of the Year.

I'm surprised the Chevrolet Volt, or Opel Ampera as it's called in Europe, did not make the final cut since it won the 2012 European Car of the Year award yesterday.

Interestingly, the name «Clio» comes from the Greek word meaning «made or make famous», which came true the next year, when the Clio picked up the European Car of the Year award.

Although, since the launch of the second generation in 2003, the Avensis won the European Car of the Year award in 2004 and sales were up to 156,000 units, people say Avensis has a wiping design, with no dynamism.

The Fiat Punto was voted European Car of the Year for 1995, [5] defeating rival Volkswagen Polo by only 78 points.

The Bravo / Brava was voted European Car of the Year on its launch.

Renault is known to be the only car company that has won the European Car of the Year award twice.

A pioneer in zero emission mobility, Nissan made history with the introduction of the Nissan LEAF, the first affordable, mass - market, pure - electric vehicle and winner of numerous international accolades including the prestigious 2011 European Car of the Year award.

The company has received several international and national awards including «European Car of the Year» award.

Not exact matches

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said that in the first quarter of 2018, 37.9 percent of newly registered cars ran on diesel, marking a 17 percent fall from the same period a year earlier.

Driving palladium's rally this year, though, are bets that European car buyers will soon be switching from diesel - burning to gas - burning cars because of emissions concerns.

The European Automobile Manufacturers» Association, known as ACEA, said Thursday that 11.9 million new cars were registered in the European Union last year, a decline of 1.7 % compared with the previous year.

European car sales fell for the sixth straight year in 2013, despite a pickup in registrations in the final months of the year that sparked hope of a broader recovery in the region.

The bank says an aging fleet of cars on European roads, and a shortage of used cars, will prod more buyers to showrooms next year.

European new - car sales rose a third consecutive month in November, the longest period of gains in four years, as demand for autos from Volkswagen AG and Renault SA contributed to signs that an industrywide decline is ending.

In the European Union, children younger than 14 years account for a higher proportion of pedestrian mortalities than any other age group except the elderly; in the U.S., among children killed by cars, nearly a quarter were on foot.

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Bentley's China operation is already 1,500 units behind schedule this year, and hundreds of cars have been reported sold without ever leaving dealer lots in major European markets like Great Britain.

The high - performance Quadrifoglio version of the Alfa Romeo Giulia (pictured) was set to arrive later this year, but refinements to the car's chassis and safety systems have supposedly delayed the car's European launch until mid-2016.

* Leaders delay thorny talks on closer economic integration * Merkel's partners fall in line after challenging her in 2012 * Germany blocks car emissions vote, talks with Turkey * Lessons of 2005 shape cautious approach to election By Noah Barkin BERLIN, June 28 (Reuters)- A year ago, Angela Merkel emerged bruised and battered from a European Union summit after the leaders of France, Italy and Spain ganged up on her,...

In the 30 years since then, I've owned a grande gruppo of classic European sports cars as well as my fair share of cowboy trucks, surfer vans, and punk - rock rat mobiles.

When we named the Nissan 300ZX our 1990 Design of the Year, design editor Robert Cumberford compared this sports coupe with the benchmark Porsche 944, saying, «At long last, and for the first time, the Japanese have achieved parity with European cars of impeccable heritage.»

Giovanardi has won the Italian Touring Car Championship three times, the European Touring Car Championship three times, clinched last year's British Touring Car title and, at the time of writing, holds a commanding lead in this year's BTCC.

Forty retailers are planned by the end of the year to sell the car in the US with European sales to follow.

At its introduction in 2013, it won the Car of the Year Japan Award, the first time it was awarded to a European product.

What is curious, though, is that while the GT - R felt extremely flat through the corners from the driver's seat, a glance at pictures of it in action reveals that this 2010 European - spec car rolls a lot more than the earlier Japanese versions that set (very slightly) slower lap times than this model last year.

The Detroit - based automakers have won car of the year eight times, European companies won four times and the Japanese have won three times.

EUROPE LIKES ALFA ROMEO Alfa Romeo's 147 was voted Europe's 2001 Car of the Year, beating the highly favored Ford Mondeo, according to results from a poll of European auto journalists.

But its European roots come through loud and clear anyway, and that helps to make the 2000 LS2 sedan one of the year's most pleasant surprises for this driver, who has been, let us say, underwhelmed in the past by Saturn's cars.

BW's announcement of a five-fold increase in production capacity suggests that the technology may become quite commonplace in European cars in the next few years, at substantially lower markups.

To many of the world's automakers at the 1998 North American International Auto Show, the past is almost as important as the present and the future.With American and European automakers finally closing in on Japanese levels of quality and with too many manufacturers chasing after too few buyers, many car companies at this year's show are playing up their heritage to strengthen their brand identity.At the show, which opens to the public Saturday at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit: * Volkswagen unveiled a groovy new version of the Beetle, the best - selling car in history.

As demand for diesel engines in standard sedan and station wagon cars in the United States has traditionally been much lower than in saloon and estate cars in Europe, the development of smaller automotive turbodiesels has (in general) been led by European manufacturers in recent years.