{"id":3793,"date":"2021-03-12T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:58:32","slug":"ford-and-hyundai-shine-at-2021-north-american-car-utility-and-truck-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/ford-and-hyundai-shine-at-2021-north-american-car-utility-and-truck-of-the-year-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford and Hyundai shine at 2021 North American Car, Utility and Truck of the Year awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2021 Ford F-150 took home the coveted North American Truck of the Year award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In case you missed it, Ford almost swept the 2021 North American Car, Utility and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) awards, with the industry\u2019s best-selling F-150<\/a> claiming 2021 Truck of the Year, and the Mustang Mach-E earning 2021\u2019s Utility of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2021 Car of the Year went to Hyundai\u2019s redesigned Elantra<\/a>, which might cause pause amongst blue-oval product planners questioning whether or not they might\u2019ve enjoyed a three-way win if the much-lauded European-spec Focus was still offered on our shores.<\/p>\n

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Hyundai’s redesigned Elantra earned the 2021 North American Car of the Year award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hyundai won the car sector\u2019s second-place prize too, or at least its Genesis luxury brand<\/a> did. That honour went to the redesigned G80 mid-size luxury sedan<\/a>, whereas Nissan\u2019s wholly redone Sentra<\/a> took a respectable third in the yearly awards program.<\/p>\n

Hyundai\u2019s Genesis brand once again placed well in the Utility category, pulling in right behind the Mustang Mach-E<\/a> with its new GV80 mid-size luxury crossover SUV<\/a>, while the rugged looking Land Rover Defender<\/a> claimed third.<\/p>\n

Finally, the \u201cDesert Rated\u201d Jeep Gladiator Mojave<\/a> took second in the Truck of the Year segment (the entire Gladiator line won this category in 2020), while the off-road \u201crace replica\u201d Ram 1500 TRX<\/a> earned a solid third place.<\/p>\n

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Ford’s Mustang-inspired (and named) Mach-E, deservedly won Utility of the Year, despite the controversy surrounding its name.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interestingly, the Truck of the Year finalists just mentioned were only significantly upgraded trims of models previously available in 2020, making the category-winning F-150<\/a> as the only winner to be completely redesigned.<\/p>\n

To learn more about these NACTOY-winning vehicles, be sure to click on the associated link. It will send you to the correct CarCostCanada pricing page, where you can find out about any manufacturer incentives, average member savings (when available), special factory leasing and financing rates (when available), manufacturer rebates (when available), and (always available) dealer invoice pricing that could save you thousands on your next new vehicle purchase. Find out more about how the CarCostCanada system works<\/a>, and remember to download our free mobile app<\/a> at the Google Play Store or Apple Store so you can have access to all of this critical info whenever you need it.<\/p>\n

Story credits: Trevor Hofmann<\/p>\n

Photo credits: Dodge, Ford, Genesis, Hyundai, Jeep, Nissan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it, Ford almost swept the 2021 North American Car, Utility and Truck of the Year (NACTOY) awards, with the industry\u2019s best-selling F-150 claiming 2021 Truck of the Year, and the Mustang Mach-E earning 2021\u2019s Utility of the Year. The 2021 Car of the Year went to Hyundai\u2019s redesigned Elantra, which might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[658,350,224,660,655,652,580,281,414,404,265,292,659,654,653,97,661,657,656,137,218,181],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carcostcanada","tag-1500-trx","tag-350","tag-car","tag-defender","tag-elantra","tag-ford-f-150","tag-g80","tag-genesis","tag-gladiator","tag-gv80","tag-hyundai","tag-jeep","tag-land-rover","tag-mach-e","tag-mustang","tag-nissan","tag-of-the-year","tag-ram","tag-sentra","tag-suv","tag-truck","tag-utility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.carcostcanada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}