The 2020 North American Car, Utility and Truck of the Year awards are nearly upon us, and GM has once again made the short list of semifinalists under consideration, with the Corvette C8 and Cadillac CT5 both slotting into the highly competitive Car category.
For reference, the North American Car of the Year award is an annual accolade handed out to the finest automotive product produced for a given model year, with three separate categories for passenger cars, utility vehicles, and trucks. The winners are announced in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, with “a jury of 50 respected jurors from print, online, radio and broadcast media across the U.S. and Canada” responsible for picking out the best of the best.
2020 Cadillac CT5-V
Multiple GM offerings made this year’s truck and utility categories as well. The last time a GM product snagged the top award in the car category was in 2017 with the Chevrolet Bolt EV.
It definitely makes a lot of sense to see the Corvette C8 and Cadillac CT5 make it to the semifinalist round for the North American Car of the Year award.
2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8
The Chevrolet Corvette C8, for example, is one of the most hotly anticipated sports car debuts to drop in recent memory, moving to a brand-new mid-engine platform after nearly seven decades with a front-engine layout.
2020 Cadillac CT5 Premium Luxury
Meanwhile, the Cadillac CT5 is the brand’s latest D-segment luxury four-door, offering a blend of premium appoint and optional sporty flavoring to take on hard-hitters like the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and BMW 3 Series.
Of course, the Corvette C8 and Cadillac CT5 will have their work cut out for them as they go head-to-head with a variety of other contenders for the prestigious award, including:
- BMW 3 Series
- Hyundai Sonata
- Kia Soul
- Mazda3
- Mercedes-Benz A-Class
- Polestar 1
- Porsche 911
- Subaru Legacy
- Toyota Supra
- Volkswagen Arteon
We’ll be sure to follow this story as it develops to see how the Corvette C8 and Cadillac CT5 fair.
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Comments
Give it to the C8 now as it is the most significant and historic car in the list.
25 years from now it will still be significant while the others will just be used cars.
The CT5 being mentioned in the same article as a C8 says extremely promising things about the car’s performance, quality, and value. A lot of people that post here want that car to fail. It looks like a very competitive product in reality.
As good as the CT5 may be….the C8 is arguably one of the most significant new car introductions in a generation. It’s brought a level of performance, quality, and value that simply doesn’t exist in that segment. It threatens the market viability of a lot of Italian, Japanese, German, and British cars.
Would any of you buy a Supra or 718 when the C8 exists? Neither of those cars are going to make much headway with buyers that aren’t loyal to those brands.
The C8 is the car of this year, hands down. No other car invokes emotion in me like the C8. It’s why I visit this website day in and day out. As for SUV of the year, that would have to be the Lincoln Aviator. Really glad to see American Companies making desirable products again, especially Lincoln. Cadillac should not even be part of the list, their reveals have been insulting to luxury owners.
Great comments by both of you… the C8 is huge… its so huge in so many ways… but GM… this is what we, your potential customers want you to give us in Cadillac. I want a Cadillac Seville that is gorgeous, powerful, fabulous interior and your license to print money… don’t give me some spiffy chevy or “multiuse flexible platform”. I want a CT6 2 door coupe called the Eldorado… how frickin hard is that, you’ve got the platform, just make it and do about 3 minutes of marketing…. dayam….
Cadillac vehicles need to punch this type of excitement and its possible if they’d simply commit… i”m not holding my breath. Another post talks about the CT5’s new orange paint…. who gives a rat? Give us the El Miraj or the Escala… nothing less…. get a life you monkeys….