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New York 2008: And the Green World Car of the Year is ...

Posted Mar 20th 2008 at 11:41AM by Jonathon Ramsey

Filed under: Diesel, BMW, New York Auto Show



Efficient Dynamics has claimed its first scalps of the year, taking the World Car of the Year Green Award. The three finalists were all Rudolph's children, being of the diesel variety: the BMW 118d, the smart fortwo cdi, and the Volkswagen Passat 1.9 TDi BlueMotion. The specific rationale for choosing the BMW wasn't given, but the roominess, real world practicality, miserly emissions and fuel needs, and Efficient Dynamics are probably all good suspects. It's a nifty little car and a well deserved award, so kudos to you, BMW. Now if you could get that diesel Isetta going, we'd really get to cheering for you.


Tags: bmw, bmw 118d, Bmw118d, efficient dynamics, EfficientDynamics, wcoty, world car of the year, world car of the year award, world car of the year green award, WorldCarOfTheYear, WorldCarOfTheYearAward, WorldCarOfTheYearGreenAward

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The finalists for 2007 World Green Car are from BMW, Mercedes and VW

Posted Mar 20th 2007 at 1:09PM by Jeremy Korzeniewski

Filed under: Diesel, Hydrogen, MPG, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen


My friend John over at Autoblog did a good job of highlighting the fact that the German automakers cleaned up when it comes to the World Car of the Year finalists. Speaking of cleaning up, (haha) a subcategory of the competition offers up some choices of the "World Green Car", also all from Germany. The finalists are... in no particular order...
  • BMW Hydrogen 7
  • Mercedes-Benz E320 BLUETEC
  • Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion
Cast your unofficial vote here or submit your own choices in the comments. The cars in the poll only include models that can currently be purchased somewhere, hence no Tesla or ZAP-X.

Which car would you select as World Green COTY?
BMW Hydrogen 7
Mercedes-Benz E320 BLUETEC
Volkswagen Polo BlueMotion
Smart ForTwo
Toyota Prius
Free polls from Pollhost.com
[Source: WCOTY.com via Autoblog via Winding Road]

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Tags: BMW, BMW Hydrogen 7, BmwHydrogen7, Dailmer Benz, DailmerBenz, Daimler-Benz, E320, E320 Bluetec, E320Bluetec, Mercedes, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes-Benz, MercedesBenz, Polo, Polo Bluemotion, PoloBluemotion, Volkswagen, VW, World Car of the Year, World Green Car, WorldCarOfTheYear, WorldGreenCar

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