{"id":2662,"date":"2023-01-17T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2023-01-17T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T03:01:24","slug":"2023-north-american-car-truck-and-utility-of-the-year-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2662","title":{"rendered":"2023 North American Car, Truck and Utility of the Year revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> close     <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/896\/500\/coty.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Test drive: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning\" width=\"896\" height=\"500\" data-v-a7f268cc> Video <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-a7f268cc>Test drive: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning<\/h4>\n<p data-v-a7f268cc>Ford&#8217;s first electric F-Series<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the year awards were announced at an event in Pontiac, Michigan, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The winners are chosen by a panel of 50 journalists from various media outlets in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Surprising few, the Ford F-150 Lightning was named Truck of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The all-electric pickup has been racking up awards since its debut last year, with Ford delivering more than 15,000 through December as it ramps up production.<\/p>\n<p>REVIEW: THE 2023 ACURA INTEGRA IS A WORTHY RAD-ERA REBOOT<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/640\/320\/coty.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"\"> <\/p>\n<p>      (Acura\/Ford\/Kia)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earning North America&#8217;s Truck of the Year is huge for the team that has been working so hard to build and deliver as many Lightnings as possible as quickly as possible,&#8221; said Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Car of the Year honors went to the Acura Integra, which held off the Nissan Z and Genesis G80 EV in the final round of voting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/8be47336-1366-460d-a5c6-fd0e20777836\/3face0cf-3430-4074-9ace-14c909a481d2\/1280x720\/match\/720\/405\/image.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Review: 2023 Acura Integra\"> Video<\/p>\n<p>The compact sedan replaced the ILX and resurrected a name from Acura&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relaunching an iconic model like Integra with such great fanfare and industry recognition has been incredible,&#8221; said Emile Korkor, assistant vice president of Acura National Sales.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FOX NEWS AUTOS NEWSLETTER<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re especially proud for the Integra development team in Japan and our production associates at our plant in Marysville, Ohio, where the 2023 Integra is built,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/6f02397c-08ee-4b2b-95e7-08f6d2eaed2c\/86e8e7ef-1760-43e2-a877-9df7309535ab\/1280x720\/match\/720\/405\/image.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Test drive: 2022 Kia EV6\"> Video<\/p>\n<p>The Kia EV6 made it two out of three for electric vehicles by winning the Utility of the Year category ahead of the Genesis GV60 and Cadillac Lyriq.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a year with three electric finalists, this win proves that EV6 is not only a top utility vehicle but also an exemplary EV,&#8221; said Sean Yoon, Kia America president and CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close Video Test drive: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Ford&#8217;s first electric F-Series The North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the year awards were announced at an event in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}