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The award goes to Honda Civic
Indian Car of the Year 2007 is
Honda Civic.
BY OUR AUTO CORRESPONDENT
March 12, 2007: The debate over who
is the best continues. With many an
award given away already, it is now
the turn of India’s top automobile
journalists to decide who really is
the best. And they have picked a
beauty.
Honda Civic was pronounced the title
of Indian Car of the Year-2007 by top
automobile journalists of India at a
ceremony held in Mumbai.
The ICOTY award, which has been
instituted to review all new cars in
the Indian car mart, is judged by
senior motoring journalists of India.
Civic was among the eight cars who
qualified in this year’s awards that
included new launches by other
manufacturers competing for the title.
Civic had already been declared the
car of the year by many a magazine.
The car came up trumps winning as many
as nine awards including two ‘Car of
the Year’ awards. Honda Civic was
adjudged the ‘Car of the Year’ by CNBC
TV-18 Autocar Auto Awards 2007 and
NDTV Profit Car India & Bike India
Awards 2007. The car also made a clean
sweep of the ‘Viewers’ Choice’ award
bagging the NDTV, CNBC and Aaj Tak
Viewers’ Choice awards.
The 10 members of the ICOTY 2007 jury
included eminent auto journalists from
the country, including Hormazd
Sorabjee and Shapur Kotwal (Autocar
India), Gautam Sen and Bob Rupani (BBC
Top Gear), Bijoy Kumar Y and Srinivas
Krishnan (Business Standard Motoring),
Adil Darukhanwala and Aspi Bathena
(Car India) and Yogendra Pratap and
Sirish Chandran (Overdrive).
The Honda Civic, which was launched in
India in July 2006, too has matched
the success of other Honda models and
has proved an instant hit with Indian
customers.
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