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Watch This! MotorTrend Chooses the Most Significant Car of the Year From 70 Years of Winners

This year, MotorTrend will have picked a Car of the Year annually since 1949. To celebrate, we brought eight of the most important winners from the past seven decades to determine which is the most significant COTY.

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