Chevy Volt Adds North American Car Of The Year Award To Long List Of Achievements
January 10, 2011 at 09:45 AM EST
It's official: the automotive press loves General Motor's Chevy Volt as it walks away from the NAIAS as the North American International Car of the Year. The don't-call-it-an-extended-range EV essentially sweep 2010's consumer automotive awards, earning the top spot as Motor Trend's 2011 Car of the Year, Green Car Journal's 2011 Green Car of the Year, Automobile's 2011 Automobile of the Year, and placing among the top ten in both Car and Driver's and Ward's AutoWorld's 10 best of the year . So yeah, GM built a winner with the Volt. The Chevy Volt's story started out a short three years ago as a rolling concept and then quickly, it became clear that GM was dead serious about this car. Development timelines were beat and concepts shown-off. They even let us drive one of the engineering test mules in 2009 to show that yes, they had this thing on lock-down.
