Allegedly MiTo vanquished with 462 points ahead of the Renault Megane, the Ford Fiesta, the new – and even more boring – Golf, the Citroen C5, the Opel Insigna and the new Skoda Superb. It stands the Fiat Auto Group in a good stead, last year the new Fiat 500 could win the competition.

On 17 November we"ll be able to see whether the Detroit Free Press were right.

Alfa Romeo vanquished twice in the 48-years-history of The Car of The Year award; in 1998 with the model 156 and in 2000 with the model 147. The Fiat Group is the most fruitful of all car manufacturers as they could win eleven times since 1964.