PVOTY AS ONE DOOR CLOSES, SO OPENS ANOTHER.
Head of Editorial Welcome to our inaugural Performance Vehicle of the Year (PVOTY) issue. A quick history: We’ve awarded our Car of the Year title since 1949. In 1978, we added Truck of the Year and then SUV of the Year in 1999. Alongside Person of the Year, these have been our automotive Of The Year awards for decades. Until now. Why, and why now? It’s instructive to look back at MotorTrend’s old Import Car of the Year. First awarded in 1970, the idea of ICOTY was to finally acknowledge an indisputable truth: Cars from auto manufacturers outside of America were here to stay and should be celebrated, at least for a while. We awarded ICOTY alongside COTY until 1999, when my predecessors decided to fold the former back into the latter…