The Eyes on Design awards are dished out every North American International Auto Show, usually as the last thing on the docket. And every year, one production car walks away with an esteemed award, as does a concept car.
For 2013, there was a twist. The concept car votes actually came in as a tie, with the Nissan Resonance and Ford Atlas concepts sharing the prize. But for production vehicles, there was a clear winner: the Cadillac ELR. Apparently voters found the lines the plug-in luxury hybrid coupe to be cleaner, prettier and less noisy than those of the 2014 Corvette Stingray, which came in as the runner-up.
Notably, the Cadillac Converj concept also won an Eyes on Design award back in 2009, which as many of you know, is the very car the design of the ELR is based on.
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I love the elr but i dont know about that one. Should go to the vette but nonetheless a good choice cause the elr is a gem. Pretty safe to say GM completely dominated the show and absolutely slapped the shit out of the would be competition. Not to mention the ats one the north american car of ghe year in a landslide against stiff competition
for Chevy to have hit a home run the praise for the new Corvette would have to be almost universal, it is far from that. Busy busy busy seems to be the main criticism, that along with an almost unanimous dislike of the rear. The ELR is light years ahead of the Corvette design. For all the talk of being all new this Corvette design would look right at home about 75, excluding the head lights.
Very nice…I bet ATS will have a sassy coupe like this one soon…….I prefer the ATS in fact for styling….and it just won ANOTHER award in D town 🙂 🙂
Dan, I hope the eventual ATS coupe will be a cool looking car, but I hope they change the one thing that really bothered me about the CTS coupe. It’s a 4000lb car that cannot fit two full size people in the back seat. It has no headroom. I know coupes are more about style than function, and many say get the sedan then, but there has to be at least some function in a car that big and heavy.
As for the ELR, I do really like the styling and I hope it does well, but it did lose a lot of the super-cool looks along the way from concept to production. Stylisitically, it’s just another neat-looking coupe, which many will say is the idea, but I think is too bad. The concept sure was a head-turner!
Bronco…yes, right on…CTS coupe is miserable for reat seating…I’m 5 8 and I could not sit up! ELR did lose something in translation for sure..the cars never look as good as the concept 🙂