On the occasion of the prelude the car Show in American Detroit (10.01 to 1/23/2011) were chosen the North American „car of the year“ as well as “Truck of the Year”.

The honouring for the best passenger car of the USA was awarded by a jury from 49 North American journalists. Place 1 went in the Chervrolet for volt. The electromobile can put back a distance from up to 60 kilometres in the purely electric company. A small internal combustion engine acts as a rank-ex-tender and charges the batteries during the journey again. Therefore the range of the volt on up to 500 kilometres is extended.

In the class the truck new Ford Explorer could assert itself against the competition. The gigantic vehicle is driven by a 3,5-Liter-V6-Benzinmotor and thereby uses in the town traffic about 13.8 litres of fuel on 100 kilometres. Ford is with it the most efficient model in the class of the Fullsize-SUV. To promote further this trend, the American car manufacturer wants to offer the Explorer still this year with a sparing 2.0-litre Ecoboost engine.