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MotorWeek Drivers’ Choice Awards
The MotorWeek Drivers’ Choice Awards are one of the many yearly ''Car of the Year'' awards. This one is given by MotorWeek, an American television automotive magazine series. Since 1983, MotorWeek has presented its Drivers’ Choice Awards which are among the auto industry's most prestigious honors. The Drivers’ Choice Awards provide a consumer focus and represent a list of best automotive picks in the most popular vehicle categories, including the “Best of the Year” award. They are presented annually in February during the Chicago Auto Show. Categories As of 2011, the categories are: 2011 Drivers' Choice Award Winners and Quotes * Best of the Year * Best Small Car * Best Family Sedan * Best Sport Sedan * Best Luxury Sedan * Best Convertible * Best Small Utility * Best Large Utility * Best Pickup Truck * Best Minivan * Best Sport Coupe * Best Performance Car * Best Eco-Friendly * Best Dream Machine Until 1998, some categories were separated into imports and domestics. V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 MotorWeek Drivers' Choice Award
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an Ascender (typography), ascender ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
