The VW Golf is something like the Daniel Day Lewis of the automotive awards: when it's nominated, there's a good chance it will win. A few days after the Irish actor bagged his third Oscar for his performance in Lincoln, the seventh iteration of VW’s C-Segment model won the 2013 European Car of the Year award for the second time in its history, becoming only the second model after the Renault Clio to have done so.
Perhaps the analogy is not exactly fair: DDL hasn’t been nominated for each and every movie he has starred in while all seven generations of the Golf have been on the CoTY podium.
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