The Yankee Cup, presented each year by NEMPA, with input from MIT’s automotive engineering faculty, to a “feature or system that significantly enhances the motoring experience, whether by making driving safer, more cost-efficient or simply more enjoyable.” For the first time, the Yankee Cup has been awarded to an entire vehicle—and a truck, at that: […]
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Hyundai’s CEO, Ford Fusion Among those Honored at MIT
Automakers & Media celebrate 15 years of awards and 25 years of NEMPA
New Ford Fusion Earns the 2012 Gene Ritvo Award
DEARBORN, Mich., May 11, 2012 – The 2013 Ford Fusion has earned the Gene Ritvo Award for Design and Elegance from the New England Motor Press Association (NEMPA) in conjunction with Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Larz Anderson Auto Museum.
Automakers & NEMPA celebrate 14 years of awards
Gala dinner at MIT toasts and roasts summer & winter winners
The 2011 Winter Vehicles Honor Roll
BOSTON- New Englanders are a hardy lot, used to fast-changing, often treacherous winter weather, but the Yankee spirit doesn’t get slowed down by white stuff or a hard freeze. Every February, New England’s expert automotive journalists come together to evaluate the vehicles best able to cope with the mix of terrain and mercurial conditions our […]
2011 Winter Driving Awards Winners
The vehicles have been driven, notes taken, and votes cast. After all was said and done, the Jeep Grand Cherokee earned the top spot in the 2011 NEMPA Winter Driving Awards