2016 CAGI Car & Truck of the Year Awards

**StockEngine** · November 22nd, 2016 02:02 AM

Honda clearly made a splash..

Isuzu upsets the truck markets lol

Mazda is taking awards left and right but sales numbers ???

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**StockEngine** · November 22nd, 2016 04:01 PM

Can someone shed light as to why the dmax won?

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**dct** · November 22nd, 2016 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by StockEngine

Can someone shed light as to why the dmax won?

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Di ko rin maintindihan how it won. Walang kalaban? Haha. Pag sinabibg truck of the year, pick up lang ba? Hindi ba pwedeng manalo ang pick up base suv?

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**glntVR** · November 22nd, 2016 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by dct

Di ko rin maintindihan how it won. Walang kalaban? Haha. Pag sinabibg truck of the year, pick up lang ba? Hindi ba pwedeng manalo ang pick up base suv?

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From my understanding puro pick-up lang. Very few competitors.

**cast_no_shadow** · November 22nd, 2016 06:57 PM

Votes based lang ba yung winners? Or may "experts" involved?

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**niky** · November 22nd, 2016 08:37 PM

The awards are based on back-to-back-to-back test drives, wherein judges score the cars based on subjective factors like comfort, ergonomics, styling, etetera.

Then safety features are scored, and for trucks, off-road features and cargo capacity.

And lastly, we do performance testing. Acceleration, braking, handling. We did about 450 test runs this year. Those numbers are plugged into the final score, as well.

The TOTY competitors this year were the Chevrolet Colorado, the Strada and the D-Max. Mitsubishi only sent 4x4 Stradas. Those were the only ones qualified all competitors have to have mechanical updates versus last year's model... Strada 4x4s have the new 2.4. The D-Max has the upgraded 3.0.)

I was actually disappointed. The new Colorado is the fastest yet, and the handling is now freaking good. Guess the other judges were still not impressed by the plastics versus the Strada.

That said, the D-Max is a pretty comfortable truck, and I was actually eyeing buying one before... even though last year it still had the old 3.0.

Mazda had a very strong line-up. The board actually announced second and third place overall this year. Both second and third were Mazda6s.

But still, the Civic deserves this win. Honda has finally made a Civic worth desiring again.

**StockEngine** · November 23rd, 2016 01:17 AM

Originally Posted by niky

The awards are based on back-to-back-to-back test drives, wherein judges score the cars based on subjective factors like comfort, ergonomics, styling, etetera.

Then safety features are scored, and for trucks, off-road features and cargo capacity.

And lastly, we do performance testing. Acceleration, braking, handling. We did about 450 test runs this year. Those numbers are plugged into the final score, as well.

The TOTY competitors this year were the Chevrolet Colorado, the Strada and the D-Max. Mitsubishi only sent 4x4 Stradas. Those were the only ones qualified all competitors have to have mechanical updates versus last year's model... Strada 4x4s have the new 2.4. The D-Max has the upgraded 3.0.)

I was actually disappointed. The new Colorado is the fastest yet, and the handling is now freaking good. Guess the other judges were still not impressed by the plastics versus the Strada.

That said, the D-Max is a pretty comfortable truck, and I was actually eyeing buying one before... even though last year it still had the old 3.0.

Mazda had a very strong line-up. The board actually announced second and third place overall this year. Both second and third were Mazda6s.

But still, the Civic deserves this win. Honda has finally made a Civic worth desiring again.

I still wish we have the thais' 3.0 with the 6spd aisin.

Multilink rear on the civic is just sweet.

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**EQAddict** · November 23rd, 2016 08:29 AM

Im tempted to sell my jazz ans get this Civic RS.

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**attorney** · November 23rd, 2016 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by EQAddict

Im tempted to sell my jazz ans get this Civic RS.

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Go go go! Im thinking about it too!

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**niky** · November 23rd, 2016 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by EQAddict

Im tempted to sell my jazz ans get this Civic RS.

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Waiting to see when the Americans will finally break a transmission, first.

But so far, this new CVT seems robust. No flurry of users reporting failures as with the early GT-Rs, and those Americans rag on those 1.5Ts like there's no tomorrow.

It's a pretty intelligent transmission. Doles out torque perfectly at launch to give a good takeoff without wheelspin, tire hop or lurching.

Great car. Sure, you'll miss the punch of gearshifts at first, but you eventually learn to appreciate the smooooooth acceleration.