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• Special recognition for economical, eco-friendly and safe vehicles
• Volkswagen wins in two of three categories
The Passat Saloon and the Golf Sportsvan were voted “Auto der Vernunft” (Most Reasonable Car) by readers of the German magazines SUPERillu and Guter Rat, one of the leading consumer magazines in Germany. The Passat won in the ‘Saloon’ category, and the Golf Sportsvan was victorious in the ‘Estate car/MPV’ category.
“The voting readers’ choices of the winning cars are a strong indicator that they pay attention to good fuel economy even in times of lower fuel prices,” said Robert Schneider, Editor-in-Chief of Guter Rat and SUPERillu magazines, at the award presentations today in Berlin. In addition, car buyers think it is very important to offer a very broad range of safety systems as well as easy interfaces to smartphones in the car’s electrical/electronic system. Schneider continued by saying that the clear success of Volkswagen was in part a tribute to the many technical innovations that the Volkswagen Group has advanced in recent times, making them accessible to a broad range of buyers.
This is already the fifteenth time that SUPERillu, the most widely read newsstand magazine in eastern Germany, and Guter Rat have conducted this survey of the “”. The winning vehicles were chosen by readers of the two print magazines and by online users. Other Volkswagen models that were named “Most Reasonable Car” in prior years included the: Golf (2013), Jetta (2012), Polo (2010), Golf Variant (2008), Touran (2004) and New Beetle Cabrio (2003).