Originally Posted by mayonaise
like Troopa-R said, no one's arguing you here. but the fact that they separated imports from domestics is a pretty strong statement by itself. it shows that motortrend didn't view imports as worthy of receiving the COTY award, or that they were afraid of imports taking away a disproportionately large percentage of the awards. is there another reason? i think this suggests a detroit-slanted bias. and for this reason, the civic winning the award this year is significant, even though the award may not mean much to anyone here.
And like I said, its nothing significant in them chosing an import brand product for 2006. 3 of the last 4 years, including 2006, the MT's COTY award went to import brand (G35, Prius, Civic).