Passat wins Auto1 trophy, one of Europes most prestigious
The Passat has just won one of Europe's most prestigious and important reader's polls. The Auto1 Trophy was awarded after 40 million readers of 24 European magazines published by the AutoBild Group took part. The final round of voting focused on 13 models, with a panel of 40 editors, technology, and motor sport experts voted the Passat number 1.
"The Auto1 Award is the crowing point of a series of successes", said Dr. Wolfgang Bernhard, Chairman of Volkswagen brand Board of Management, thanking the readers and jury. He drew attention to the diversity of prizes won in recent times by the Passat, saying that this proof of the car’s "outstanding concept".
As far back as 1997 saw the Passat in its fifth generation win the Auto1 Award. Since its market launch in March 2005 (Variant: August 2005) the new Passat has established itself at the head of the middle-class saloon field and lost no time in continuing its predecessor’s winning ways, for example collecting the “Gelber Engel” consumer prize awarded by Germany’s ADAC automobile club and the “Goldene Lenkrad” presented by Bild am Sonntag, the German Sunday newspaper. The Passat has also been voted “Car of the Year” in several other European countries.
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