• April 1, 2010

Chevrolet's Camaro snagged the 2010 World Car Design of the Year award. The award was presented to Chevrolet brass at this year's New York International Auto Show. The award is sponsored by BASF and highlights new vehicles that are deemed most eye-friendly and cutting edge.

Cars eligible for this award are taken from the list of 30 World Car candidates nominated by 59 jurors from 25 countries.

The five-person design panel that reviewed each candidate and drew up a short list were: Masatsugu Arimoto, chairman of the Japan Auto Colour Award program, juror on Japan's governmental "Good Design Award" committee; Silvia Baruffaldi, managing editor of Auto & Design magazine; Gernot Bracht, former designer at Renault; Sam Livingstone, associate editor of Car Design News and senior tutor in vehicle design at the Royal College of Art; and Tom Matano: currently the executive director, School of Industrial Design, at Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

The other two contenders were Citroen C3 Picasso and the Kia Soul.--Karl Greenberg