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The World Car of the Year award was created to recognize and honor excellence in the automotive market on an international scale.
In this second presentation, the BMW 3-Series was announced as the overall winner.
"The concept of national borders is now almost non-existent in terms of where vehicles and their components are designed, engineered, developed, and built ... or where they are sold," said British automotive journalist, Graham Johnson, who is co-chair of the award program. "Considering the ever-increasing globalization of the automotive industry," he added, "the concept of a World Car of the Year award program was inevitable ... it is truly an idea whose time has come."
In order to be eligible, a vehicle needed to be sold in at least five countries on at least two continents.
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In addition to the overall winner, top choices were announced for World Performance Car, World Green Car, and World Car Design of the Year.
Winners of these additional awards were:
World Performance Car - Porsche Cayman S
World Green Car - Honda Civic Hybrid
World Car Design of the Year - Citroen C4
A jury of 46 international automotive journalists considered a variety of parameters; then individually reviewed, evaluated, and voted on the World Car of the Year entrants by secret ballot. The international accounting firm KPMG tabulated the ballots to first determine the finalists, and finally the winner.
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