'NDTV Profit - Car & Bike' Honours India's Best Automobiles

New Delhi, Delhi, India , 2007-01-13

-- Honda Civic wins the 'NDTV Profit Car & Bike Award' for Car of the Year

-- GM bags Car Manufacturer and small Car of the year award for Chevorlet Aveo U-VA

-- Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme wins the 'NDTV Profit Car & Bike Award' for Bike of the Year

-- Anand Mahindra wins the Automotive Man of the Year

Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme & Honda Civic were named as the best bike and the best car of 2006 at the annual 'NDTV Profit Car & Bike India Awards' event in Mumbai. Honda Civic and TVS Apache won the Viewers' Choice awards and the Marketing Team award went to General Motors. For his contribution to the Indian automobile industry, Mr. Anand Mahindra was awarded the 'NDTV Profit Car & Bike Automobile Man of the Year'.

Speaking on the occasion, a highly elated Mr. M. Takedagawa , President & CEO Honda Siel Cars India, said, "Civic has done us proud across the world with its style, technology and its ability to adapt ongoing innovation and its heartening to know it’s the same for India".

Mr. Pawan Munjal, MD Hero Honda while accepting the Bike of the year for CBZ X-Treme said, "This award is a tribute to Hero Honda and all in the Hero Honda family"

Mr. Anand Mahindra, Vice Chairman and MD, M&M;, on being awarded Automotive Man of the Year award said, “I am happy to receive the award from a prestigious and credible organization like NDTV and I dedicate this award to the entire Mahindra team”.

The second edition of 'CNB-AAA Awards 2007', in association with Car India and Bike India was witnessed by the nation's top professionals corporate honchos from the auto industry. The successful evening was a celebration of the best design, unmatched technology, style and performance in the automobile industry and honoured the best vehicles that dominated the markets and ruled our hearts in 2006.

CNB-AAA Awards is an attempt to felicitate the best among the best, showcased in the NDTV Profit's highly acclaimed 'Car and Bike' and "All About Ads" shows.

The event was presented across 30 different categories at a special awards ceremony at Mumbai. CNB-AAA Awards are the automobile industry's one of the most credible awards being presented every year by NDTV, in association with Car India and Bike India magazine team.

Some of the novel award categories that are incorporated this year are Commercial vehicles awards, Vehicle Design and Imported vehicles award.

** Winners in respective categories

Cars

-- Honda Civic - Car of the Year

-- Maruti & General Motors (Tie & award shared between the two) - Car Manufacturer of the Year

-- Chevrolet Aveo U-VA - Small Car of the Year

-- Hyundai Verna - Mid-size Car of the Year

-- Honda Civic - Executive Car of the Year

-- Toyota Camry - Premium Car of the Year

-- Honda CR-V- SUV of the Year

-- Audi Q7- Import SUV of the Year

-- Porsche 911 Carrera 4S- Import Car of the Year

-- Aspire Asymmetric Tyre, Apollo Tyres - Automotive Product of the Year

-- ABS ESP from MICO BOSCH - Automotive Technology of the Year

Bikes

12. Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme - Bike of the Year

13. Bajaj Auto Limited - Bike Manufacturer of the Year

14. Bajaj Platina - Bike of the Year upto 100 cc

15. Yamaha Gladiator - Bike of the Year upto 125 cc

16. Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme- Bike of the Year upto 150 cc

17. Kinetic Blaze - Scooter of the Year

18. PGM-FI from Hero Honda – Bike Technology of the Year

Commercial Vehicles

19. Force MAN L49 Tractor Head - CV of the Year

20. Tata Motors Limited- CV Manufacturer of the Year

21. Volvo B7R - CV Technology of the Year Special Award

22. Karun Chandhok - Indian Motorsport Award

23. Honda Civic - Automotive Design of the year

Automotive Man of the Year

Anand Mahindra, Vice Chairman & MD, M&M;

CNB/NDTV AWARDS

-- M&M; Scorpio - CNB-AAA Creative Print Campaign of the year

-- Zen Estilo - CNB-AAA Creative TV Campaign of the year

-- General Motors - CNB-AAA Marketing team of the year

-- Honda and General Motors (Tie & award shared between the two) - CNB-AAA PR & Communications team of the year

-- TVS Apache - CNB-AAA Viewers' choice Bike of the Year

-- Honda Civic - CNB-AAA Viewers' choice Car of the Year

-- Aamir Khan (Toyota Innova) - CNB-AAA Brand Ambassador of the Year
Contact

Manisha Natarajan, NDTV, +91 (011) 4157 7777
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