13Jan/110
Chevy Volt named North American Car of the Year
Electric? Hybrid? Series? Parallel? Who cares? The Chevrolet Volt, the very auto that helped us flee a soggy and cold Washington D.C. previous year, was now named North American Car of the Year at the North American International Auto Show by an independent board of judges representing most important media outlets. It bested other finalists, the Hyundai Sonata and the Nissan Leaf. The Volt has won despite scoring low marks in the swimsuit section of the competition, but in its acceptance speech the Volt thanked all the little people and indicated it would spend the next 12 months working toward world peace and substitute drivetrain configurations for every one