Tag: Best Car

  • SEAT Alhambra with the “Best imported MPV” award

    Seat alhambra ThumbThe German trade magazine “Auto motor und sport” has hosted recently the awards for „The best cars in 2012“in Stuttgart. According to it the SEAT Alhambra is the “Best imported MPV”. Moreover the model wins this award for a second year in a row. Of course, to be highlighted here is that this multifunctional family car achieves the17.7 per cent of the reader’s votes in a clear-cut win. In addition more awards went for the brand SEAT. It is namely the SEAT Ibiza which got 10.1 per cent of the votes and hence got the third place in the category of imported small cars. This is the 36th edition of “The best cars” awards. In this year’s edition, more than 116,000 readers of “Auto motor und sport” participated in order to choose their favorites of 311 car models in ten categories. The award that the Alhambra got is an obvious sign for its outstanding quality and functionality. Moreover the SEAT Alhambra sustains its winning streak which started from the very start of its launch at the end of 2010. Additionally, it also was named the “Best MPV of the year” by the prestigious British trade magazine “What car?”, and even more: it also won the “AutoTrophy”, which is the readers’ award of the German “Auto Zeitung”. It also has to be highlighted the both awards are also for the second year in a row.

    2011 Seat Alhambra
    2011 Seat Alhambra

    Source: SEAT

  • Jaguar XF again awarded as “Best Car”

    jag ThumbGreat success for Jaguar, the model Jaguar XF has been awarded ‘Best Car’ in its category by the respected German motoring magazine “Auto motor und sport”.

    It is not the firs time, however, that the model won the award. To be more precise it is the fourth time in succession the XF has won this prestigious award. This award moreover, is an emphasis of the great work put on the vehicle. To go further into details, the 116,000 auto motor und sport readers who took part in the poll in order to choose the “Best Car”, voted on 311 different models in ten categories. And eventually the readers have cjosen the Xf model. Furthermore this success is following another recent success, in which the Jaguar brand received an award for XKR-S crowned as a ‘2011 Sports Car of the Year’. The award was given from the German magazine “Auto Bild Sportscars”.

    2012 Jaguar XF
    2012 Jaguar XF

    The 2012 Jaguar XF line-up offers a broad range of engines including a 2.2-litre diesel unit equipped with Intelligent Stop-Start that’s capable of achieving 52.3mpg. There is also available a supercharged 510PS 5.0-litre petrol V8 which can propel the range-topping XFR to 60mph in just 4.7 seconds. The development and testing of a new XF derivative, the XF Sportbrake, is currently in progress with further details to be released in the first half of 2012.

    Source: Jaguar