Description: The Opel Ampera, the European version of the Chevrolet Volt, has won the Car of the Year (COTY) award for 2012. The award was decided by a jury of 29 senior European journalists from the leading motor...Add Comments0
Description: The Ampera received 330 points easily beating the Volkswagen UP! with 281 points, and the Ford Focus with 256 points. The Range Rover Evoque ranked fourth with 186 points in front of the Fiat Panda wi...Add Comments1
thelorninJun 27, 2012 But the the UP! won the worlds best car 2012
Description: The competition is open to all cars from all countries that are available in at least five European nations and are expected to sell 5,000 units annually. Past award winners used the prestige extensiv...Add Comments7
Bill BaileyMar 09, 2012 Batteries are not the way foward.
Buddy RobinsonMar 07, 2012 Dumb, I mean the volt. Go get a Prius and save your hard earned money. I respect Eco cars but ive gotta say, I hated the volt
Jason BrownMar 07, 2012 It is sad to see such a great car and idea be put in hold.
Jason BrownMar 07, 2012 Sulfur based. They are talking about reducing electric cars to help improve air quality there. Not what you would have thought. So the problem is the price of these things. At 40k you can buy other a Prius and many years of gas with the savings.
Jason BrownMar 07, 2012 Not sure the environmental impact has anything to do with it. Take a look at China, they are having huge unexpected problem from all the electric cars now. The power plants that generate all the electricity are mostly coal, and mostly the high
Justin PedotoMar 07, 2012 maybe its because people see that the environmental impacts are higher than the gas benefits, and that the batteries can only take you 40 miles on a charge
Donald PittmanMar 07, 2012 Go look up the Cadillac volt concept car, saw it in person and it looked great ( it wasn't really called a volt but I forgot the name, it's based on the same platform).
Daniel MarinoMar 07, 2012 I kind of like the front of the volt better. This looks very Honda-ish