DETROIT (AP) — The Honda Civic hybrid received the 2025 North American Automotive of the 12 months award, whereas the Ford Ranger took the crown for the truck honors, and Volkswagen ID. Buzz received the utility award.
The honors, introduced Friday morning throughout an Automotive Press Affiliation occasion kicking off the North American Worldwide Auto Present in Detroit, are determined by a gaggle of fifty journalists from the U.S. and Canada. They consider components similar to innovation, design, efficiency, driver satisfaction and worth, in response to the North American Automotive, Truck and Utility Automobile of the 12 months awards group.
Friday marked the awards’ long-awaited return to the normal January Detroit Auto Present after being held elsewhere for the previous few years whereas the present skilled pandemic-related delays and was hosted through the fall.
Automakers hail the awards as a key gauge for the way media understand their new and refreshed automobiles, and consumers typically look to them to make buy choices.
Along with the profitable Honda Civic hybrid, automotive finalists included the Kia K4 compact and Toyota Camry.
The truck finalists this 12 months included the Toyota Tacoma midsize pickup alongside the full-size Ram 1500, whereas the remaining utility finalists had been the Chevrolet Equinox electrical automobile and Hyundai Santa Fe crossovers.
This 12 months’s finalists had been much less dominated by pure-EVs than in 2023 however the checklist offered a strong mixture of gasoline-powered, hybrid and electrical automobiles.
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