Creating a new award and the massive program behind it is a double-edged sword. Our other Of The Year programs are pretty locked in. We have standard tests and procedures, established venues, staff with years of institutional knowledge and experience, and long-standing criteria. Performance Vehicle of the Year remains a bit different.
It’s not just new venues and alternate weighting of our key criteria. In only its second year, we still don’t know what the absolute best format is yet. Like any other OTY, it begins with instrumented testing on the ultimate closed course: an automotive proving ground. But rather than beginning our subjective evaluations there, as we do with other OTYs, or on real-world roads, as we did last year, this year we headed straight to the track.
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