BELLEVILLE, ON — At an event gathering a group of Canada's leading automotive journalists, Jaguar Canada recently presented the Automotive Journalist Association of Canada (AJAC) Automotive Journalist of the Year Award to Vancouver resident, Bob McHugh.
 Bob McHugh |
This prestigious award was inaugurated in 1984 by past Jaguar Canada president, John Mackie to "reward excellence in automotive journalism". A variety of submissions are considered for this award including feature story, car review, general editorial opinion, with personal style and mastery of the subject taken into account.
McHugh, who writes for the Vancouver Province and a number of publications, is a first time winner of this award. He was selected by a bilingual panel of three accredited judges as being a strong and versatile writer, providing information not only interesting to car enthusiasts but also to the everyday driver.
"Bob provides very useful information to his readers with great clarity, a bit of personal flair and the occasional touch of humour," said Lindsay Crysler, a second year veteran of the judging panel. "His work displays great breadth across a wide spectrum of topics in the automotive field. His endearing quality is that he takes his subject matter, but not himself, very seriously."