Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Dec 20: Hyundai Motor India Limited has won the most coveted “Indian Car of the Year 2014 (ICOTY) Award” for the newly launched Grand.
Grand has created a new benchmark in terms of quality, features and technology offering higher value proposition to Indian customers.
Hyundai Grand has earned the country’s highest automotive award in the most competitive and rapidly growing automobile Indian market. The ICOTY award has been instituted by the most eminent jury of senior Editors of all the prominent automotive publications in the country like Top Gear, Auto India, Motoring, Car India, Overdrive, Auto Bild, AutoX, Hindu Business Line and EVO.
On receiving the award, BS Seo, Managing Director and CEO, Hyundai Motor India Limited, said, “We are honored to win the most prestigious automotive award – The Indian car of the Year 2014. The Grand is a world-class product developed for the Indian market and winning the ICOTY 2014 marks its phenomenal success. The ICOTY 2014 symbolizes Hyundai’s commitment to Indian customers by offering high standards of quality, durability and reliability”.
Grand has consolidated Hyundai’s its position as a trendsetter and leader in the premium compact car segment, he added.
Girish Karkera, Editor, BBC TopGear India and Chairman of the jury, Indian Car of the Year 2014 said, “Nowadays manufacturers are getting so competitive with making cars that it gets very difficult to choose one car over the other. The differences are sometime almost negligible and with our kind of fair voting system the verdict can go either way. Indian Car of the Year title is a respected one and I am happy to see a car as good as the Grand i10 now wearing the crown. In our collective votes it has come out on top as a wholesome product with that added flair that has tilted the verdict in its favour”.
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