OREANDA-NEWS. March 28, 2011. UAZ Patriot off-road vehicle won the first place in the Domestic Car nomination of the national automotive Best Auto Runet Award founded by Авто@Mail.Ru.

15 nominees were competing in the Domestic Car nomination. The lead of UAZ off-road vehicles was so significant that there were three UAZ models represented in this nomination following the vote. As a result, UAZ Hunter received 96,918 votes, and 102,409 votes were cast for UAZ Patriot Sport. UAZ Patriot off-road vehicle from Ulyanovsk obtained the maximum number of votes and confirmed its status of the best domestic car for the second year in a row.

The Best Auto Runet Award is given annually since 2007. Online-voting for the best cars of 2010 was held from January 25 to March 16, 2011. In this period, over 700,000 people took part in the vote.