While our Executive Editor, Zane Merva, has been out gallivanting around (read, trying to gain traction in New England’s Snow) in a certain limited edition Camaro, Popular Mechanics saw fit to award GM’s latest muscle car with an Automotive Excellence award.
Popular Mechanics evaluated a more than 100 new cars and trucks, and after numerous tests and evaluations, Chevy’s 426 HP bruiser took top honors. Fittingly, the new Camaro takes the prize from the Corvette ZR1 which won last year. GM’s performance division seems to be on a roll.
Detroit — Tom Peters, executive director, GM performance cars and full-size trucks, today accepted a Popular Mechanics Automotive Excellence Award for the design of the all-new Camaro.
“It’s truly an honor to receive an Automotive Excellence Award from such a trusted and well-known publication like Popular Mechanics,” Peters said. “This award is a tribute to the passion of many individuals who worked so hard to make the dream of the new Camaro come to life.”
The Automotive Excellence Awards are based on evaluations of more than 100 new cars and trucks that the editors from Popular Mechanics subject to a strenuous battery of tests. The team of editors then nominates a number of the vehicles for selected categories, with the top-vote getters in each receiving an Automotive Excellence Award.
“The new Chevrolet Camaro is a fresh, thoroughly modern take on the 1967 original,” says Ben Stewart, Automotive Editor, Popular Mechanics. “While the design pays homage to the past, its big tires and taut proportions perfectly convey 21st –century muscle, and there’s some serious firepower under the hood to back that up.”
This is not the first Automotive Excellence Award for Chevrolet. Last year the Corvette ZR1 received an award in the Performance category.
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Published December 14, 2009 by Eric Moretti
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