24 Apr 2012 15:37

Audi receives Autocar Asian Car of the Year 2012 trophy in Beijing

Monday 23 April, press day at Auto China 2012 in Beijing saw the trophy hand-over ceremony of the first Autocar Asian Car of the Year award to the winning car; the Audi A6.

The trophy was presented to Peter Schwarzenbauer, Board Member for Marketing and Sales at Audi AG by the Autocar Asian Car of the Year Judge’s Chairman and Editor of Autocar India Hormazd Sorabjee.

Mr Schwarzenbauer commented: 'We are very pleased to have won this award especially as it has been voted for by so many senior editors at Autocar in Asia.'

Autocar Publisher, Alastair Lewis said: 'We would like to thank all the members of our Autocar family in the region for participating in this the first Autocar Asian Car of the Year and look forward to developing the project for 2013 and beyond.'

Also present at the ceremony where some of the judges of the Autocar Asian Car of the Year and Dynaudio the sponsors of the award.

The Autocar Asian Car of the Year is a unique editorial cooperate initiative between the editors of the nine editions of Autocar magazine published across Asia in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and the only multi-market award of its kind in Asia. The award was backed-up by wide-ranging coverage in the magazines and online.