AUTO BILD INDIA and CarWale Golden Steering Wheel 2010 Winners

The Golden Steering Wheel, Europe’s most coveted automobile awards, celebrated automotive excellence second year in a row in India on the 9th of March. These awards which recognise the best in field of cars, motorcycles as well as products and technology were held by CarWale, India's no. 1 Automotive Portal and Auto Bild India, the only fortnightly automotive magazine in India.

The Golden Steering Wheel was instituted way back in 1976 in Germany. Then on, it has now become most sought after prize not just by automobile manufacturers in Germany, but the whole of Europe.

The Indian edition of the award saw the addition of new categories this year. For the Consumer Favourite category winners were decided by an online voting process carried out on CarWale.com which saw nearly 2.5 lakh users cast their votes.

Besides, the awards had an eminent jury as well. The jury which comprised of editors from Auto Bild India in addition to enthusiasts, engineers and racers drove and evaluated over 60 automobiles before putting down their points to finally come up with a winner in a number of categories including the Hatchback, Sedan, SUV/UV and Imports. The jury for the first time ever also judged motorcycles to find the best that was on offer in the year 2010.

And the winners of The Golden Steering Wheel 2010 are: