The award goes to Honda Civic

Indian Car of the Year 2007 is Honda Civic.

BY OUR AUTO CORRESPONDENT

March 12, 2007: The debate over who is the best continues. With many an award given away already, it is now the turn of India’s top automobile journalists to decide who really is the best. And they have picked a beauty.

Honda Civic was pronounced the title of Indian Car of the Year-2007 by top automobile journalists of India at a ceremony held in Mumbai.

The ICOTY award, which has been instituted to review all new cars in the Indian car mart, is judged by senior motoring journalists of India.

Civic was among the eight cars who qualified in this year’s awards that included new launches by other manufacturers competing for the title.

Civic had already been declared the car of the year by many a magazine. The car came up trumps winning as many as nine awards including two ‘Car of the Year’ awards. Honda Civic was adjudged the ‘Car of the Year’ by CNBC TV-18 Autocar Auto Awards 2007 and NDTV Profit Car India & Bike India Awards 2007. The car also made a clean sweep of the ‘Viewers’ Choice’ award bagging the NDTV, CNBC and Aaj Tak Viewers’ Choice awards.

The 10 members of the ICOTY 2007 jury included eminent auto journalists from the country, including Hormazd Sorabjee and Shapur Kotwal (Autocar India), Gautam Sen and Bob Rupani (BBC Top Gear), Bijoy Kumar Y and Srinivas Krishnan (Business Standard Motoring), Adil Darukhanwala and Aspi Bathena (Car India) and Yogendra Pratap and Sirish Chandran (Overdrive).

The Honda Civic, which was launched in India in July 2006, too has matched the success of other Honda models and has proved an instant hit with Indian customers.