The Opel Astra has been named "Car of the Year" by nearly 60 journalists
ahead of the start of the Geneva auto show, a boon for the European
operations of General Motors.
The
selection on Monday February 29,2016 of the hatchback comes as the Detroit automaker has
been looking to turn the corner with its European operations, which
have been losing money for years.
Opel
CEO Karl-Thomas Neumann praised "the toughest jury in the industry,"
and said the car's designers made a lighter, more spacious and elegant
version with this 2015 edition, which has racked up 130,000 sales. Opel
is known as Vauxhall in the UK.
Seven
European automotive publications were behind the award. Most of the
seven finalists except the Jaguar XE and the BMW 7-Series sedan were
basic transportation vehicles. The others were the Audi A4, the Mazda
MX5, the Skoda Superb and the Volvo XC90 SUV.
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