Two Honda vehicles – the Civic sedan and the Ridgeline pickup – were chosen as the car and truck of the year at the North American International Auto Show.<\/p>\n
It’s the first time in the award’s 12-year history that both winners were from the same automaker. The winners were chosen by a group of 49 full-time automotive journalists from the U.S. and Canada. Finalists had to be new or substantially redesigned from the previous model. The Honda automobiles<\/a> were among more than 50 cars and trucks that were eligible for the 2006 award.<\/p>\n “You can’t believe how much work went into reviving the Civic,” said Dick Colliver, executive vice president of American Honda Motor Co.<\/p>\n The other two finalists for car of the year were the Ford Fusion and the Pontiac Solstice. <\/p>\n The other two finalists for truck of the year were Ford Explorer and Nissan Xterra sport utility vehicles.<\/p>\n Late last year, Motor Trend magazine named the Ridgeline its truck of the year and named the Civic its car of the year.<\/p>\n Source: The Nassau Guardian<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the first time in the award’s 12-year history that both winners were from the same automaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}