VW Golf GTI: 2007 Automobile of the Year
This award is a big one: Automobile of the Year 2007 from Automobile Magazine. And it goes to the VW Golf GTI. Great choice!
More cars with earth-shattering performance have been launched in the new century than we can shake a multiprofiled camshaft at. Yet, too often, supercars aren't the most super cars. Automobile Magazine's Automobile of the Year, the delightful 2007 Volkswagen GTI, reminds us why.
Don't get us wrong. We'll never look down our noses at 500-hp screamers with roofs so low you can slip in and out from under semitrailers without a scratch. But if the last year has shown us anything--with its punishing fuel prices and growing recognition of the dire effects of global warming--it's that what the world really needs now is not cars that are fast, but cars that are practical, fuel-efficient, and fast. And that's where the new GTI, reborn for the Volkswagen Golf's--excuse us, Rabbit's--fifth generation and once again immensely fun to drive, comes in. It's the right car for our times. Hell, it's the right car for any time.
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Source: Automobile Magazine
Labels: VW
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