Business Standard Motoring a popular motor magazine has announced the 2008 awards for the best automotives. BSMotoring awards is the the oldest automotive award in India. According to Business Standard, they have driven the cars launched in 2007 over a period of time, over all kinds of roads, evaluated them over 21 critical parameters, tested them for fuel consumption figures in real life and ideal conditions, gone through the performance runs with the state-of-the-art testing equipment that uses a minimum of three satellites to get data that is accurate to the last decimal. BSMotoring had five awards for 2008. BSM Car Of The Year (for the overall winner), BSM Jury award (for the most significant launch other than the COTY winning car) and BSM Performance Car Of The Year (for the most exciting driver’s car) are carried forward this year too. A new award called the BSM Best Value (for a feature packed and capable car that is easy on the pocket to buy as well as run) debuted this year. Another award debuted this year is the BSM Premium Car Of The Year.
The winners of various categories are below in passenger car
Business Standard Motoring Car Of The Year 2008 (COTY) Hyundai i10
Business Standard Motoring Jury Award 2008 – Mahindra Renault Logan
Business Standard Motoring Performance Car Of The Year 2008 – BMW 325i
Business Standard Motoring Premium Car Of The Year 2008 – Volkswagen Passat
Business Standard Motoring Best Value 2008 – Chevrolet Spark
Business Standard Motoring had three awards in bike segment for 2008
The winners of various categories are below
Business Standard Motoring Bike of the Year – Bajaj XCD
Business Standard Motoring Scooter of the Year – Kinetic Sym Flyte
Business Standard Motoring performance bike of the year – TVS Apache RTR 160