THE GOLDEN Globe winners have just been revealed and the Academy Awards are around the corner but even multiple winners De Niro, Hoffman and Spielberg have never dominated an award category in the way that Renault has at the annual What Car? Magazine awards.
For the sixth time in seven years, Renault has won the What Car? Safety Award, in recognition of the car manufacturer's safety expertise, and especially the five-star EuroNCAP crash test performances of the new, sassy supermini, Modus (the only five-star small car) and the sleek drop-top Megane Coupe-Cabriolet.
In fact the award category itself has only existed for seven years so the only year Renault has not won was in 2000 when the EuroNCAP organisation scooped the award themselves for developing the crash test programme.
The EuroNCAP programme has provided independent evidence to the public of Renault's efforts to build the safest cars on the road and its dominance of this area must have other car manufacturers (especially some German and Swedish ones) shedding more tears than a Gwyneth Paltrow acceptance speech.
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