{"id":23142,"date":"2018-12-03T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T02:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=23142"},"modified":"2018-12-03T22:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T02:43:51","slug":"nactoy-finalists-announced-at-la-auto-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/nactoy-finalists-announced-at-la-auto-show-2","title":{"rendered":"NACTOY finalists announced at LA Auto Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/e3e37e4f88d6721e7979211fb52d625d09b96924\/c=199-0-3306-2336\/local\/-\/media\/2017\/07\/05\/DetroitNews\/DetroitNews\/636348744806386241-tdndc5-6fvxtivff9taj7gt9kk-original.jpg?width=534&amp;height=401&amp;fit=crop\" alt=\"636348744806386241-tdndc5-6fvxtivff9taj7gt9kk-original.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\"><em>Los Angeles<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 The finalists\u00a0for the 2018 North American Car, Truck and Utility of the Year pits new and old faces against one another, while Detroit automakers have a lock on Truck of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">The nominees were announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Battling for Car of the Year will be the mid-size sedan titans Honda Accord and Toyota Camry. Seeking to knock these perennial best-sellers off their perch will be the upstart Kia Stinger, the Korean brand\u2019s new performance halo sedan. For the first time in the award\u2019s history, no Detroit cars were eligible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">American is over the moon for utes, and three strong entrants will vie for the crown: the Alfa Stelvio, the first luxury SUV from the Italian brand, resurgent Volvo\u2019s XC60 and the Honda Odyssey minivan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Detroit iron dominates the Truck of the Year category. Finalists are the Chevrolet Colorado ZR2, Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator. The latter plus-size SUVs are eligible because they are based on truck platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The NACTOY winners will be announced at the Detroit auto show in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles\u00a0\u2014 The finalists\u00a0for the 2018 North American Car, Truck and Utility of the Year pits new and old faces against one another, while Detroit automakers have a lock on Truck of the Year. The nominees were announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Wednesday. Battling for Car of the Year will be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}