Those Cars of the Year
When “Car of the Year” awards started proliferating I started wondering what they were all about. Your man who’s been there, done that takes you behind the scenes.
I was party to a virtual meltdown of the world’s first and best-known Car of the Year award—at least according to the suits at Petersen Publishing. The occasion was Motor Trend’s 1972 award, when for the second year I was a member of its adjudicating panel cleverly dubbed CARS—Conference of Automotive Research Specialists.
I was in great company. On the …
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