How i10 became car of the year 2008?. Review on Hyundai i10

This review doesn’t cover anything about Hyundai i10 but shares some thoughts as to how its promoters are advertising it as car of the year 2008… (May be this was better suited for a dairy post, anyway...)

Is it possible to declare a particular student as rank student for this academic year 2008-09, as soon as classes start in first semester (say during June 08)? A student can be declared rank student, or topper etc  on either of these two conditions: 1. he/she can be declared rank student for academic year 2007-08 based on the marks secured in 2007-08 exams, or 2. has to be declared topper for 2008-09 only after annual exams for 2008-09 are held and scores are evaluation is complete. In other words, you can’t select a student as topper for the given academic year at the beginning of the academic year.

Having said that, my concern is, how can someone call a car as car of the year 2008 at the beginning of the year 2008?We’re still in Feb 2008, 10 more months to go, so many cars are to be launched in coming months, so how we can award COTY award to any car so early?

If it was Car of the year 2007 then it would have made sense, but I don’t see reasoning for calling it COTY 2008, because year 2008 is not complete yet and there’s every chance that some cars may hit the market this year which might be better than i10.

Same with bikes...

This trend is more in auto industry than anywhere else. May be this is a stupid idea and waste of time disussing the issue. What is your view?

https://bsmotoring.com/bsm/wcms/en/home/top_story/BS-Motoring-Car-Of-The-Year-2
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