{"id":395317,"date":"2010-03-05T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/05\/final-three-world-car-of-the-year-finalists-announced\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:33:00","slug":"final-three-world-car-of-the-year-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/395317","title":{"rendered":"Final three World Car of the Year finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/new-york-auto-show\/\" rel=\"tag\">New York Auto Show<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hybrids\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hybrid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/geneva-motor-show\/\" rel=\"tag\">Geneva Motor Show<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/chevrolet\/\" rel=\"tag\">Chevrolet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/kia\/\" rel=\"tag\">Kia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mercedes-benz\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mercedes-Benz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/porsche\/\" rel=\"tag\">Porsche<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/toyota\/\" rel=\"tag\">Toyota<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/volkswagen\/\" rel=\"tag\">Volkswagen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/ferrari\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ferrari<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/diesel\/\" rel=\"tag\">Diesel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/05\/final-three-world-car-of-the-year-finalists-announced\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20100305\/OPINION03\/3050406\/World-Car-of-the-Year-finalists-revealed\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/world-coty.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The votes from 59 international journalists have been counted and the finalists for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/worldcaroftheyear\">World Car of the Year<\/a> have been named. <em>The Detroit News<\/em> is reporting that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/prius\">Toyota Prius<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/17\/geneva-preview-178-hp-volkswagen-polo-gti-revealed\/\">Volkswagen Polo<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/e-class\">Mercedes-Benz E-Class<\/a> have made the final cut, and the three vehicles will go toe-to-toe on April 1st (no foolin&#8217;) at the start of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/new-york-auto-show\/\">New York Auto Show<\/a>, which is where the World COTY award is announced.<\/p>\n<p>On the performance vehicle front, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/r8\">Audi R8 V10<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/10\/geneva-preview-porsche-911-gt3-r-hybrid\/\">Porsche 911 GT3 <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/10\/geneva-preview-porsche-911-gt3-r-hybrid\/\">Ferrari California<\/a> are jockeying for the big prize. We feel sorry for the judges who have to choose from among these three junkers, but we&#8217;re sure they&#8217;ll somehow make it fun for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Design finalists are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/09\/10\/paris-preview-citroen-c3-picasso-unveiled-ahead-of-show\/\">Citroen C3 Picasso<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/soul\">Kia Soul<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/camaro\">Chevrolet Camaro<\/a>, and from the green category we have the previously mentioned Prius, the <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/model\/insight\">Honda Insight<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/make\/volkswagen\">Volkswagen<\/a>&#8216;s BlueMotion diesel offerings. Check back on these pages to see the winners of the individual categories when they are announced in New York on April Fool&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20100305\/OPINION03\/3050406\/World-Car-of-the-Year-finalists-revealed\">The Detroit News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/05\/final-three-world-car-of-the-year-finalists-announced\/\">Final three World Car of the Year finalists announced<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:33:00 EST.  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The Detroit News is reporting that the Toyota Prius, Volkswagen Polo and the Mercedes-Benz E-Class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}