pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/" rel="tag"Etc./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/audi/" rel="tag"Audi/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/bentley/" rel="tag"Bentley/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/bmw/" rel="tag"BMW/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/cadillac/" rel="tag"Cadillac/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/chrysler/" rel="tag"Chrysler, LLC./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/dodge/" rel="tag"Dodge/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/ford/" rel="tag"Ford/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/" rel="tag"GM/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/honda/" rel="tag"Honda/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/kia/" rel="tag"Kia/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/land-rover/" rel="tag"Land Rover/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/subaru/" rel="tag"Subaru/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/suzuki/" rel="tag"Suzuki/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/volkswagen/" rel="tag"Volkswagen/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/opinion-editorial/" rel="tag"Opinion/Editorial/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nempa-winter-vehicle-award-winners/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/winter_car_venza_580.jpg" //abr /div align="center"strongsmallemclick the image above to view a hi-res gallery of all the Winter Vehicle Award winners/em/small/strongbr //divbr /New England's mercurial weather places demands on vehicles and drivers that other regions often don't get to enjoy. To help guide residents of the northern hinterlands, the New England Motor Press Association recently gathered its regional autowriters together to choose this year's Official Winter Vehicle of New England. Autoblog attended and did our part by casting ballots for the various categories, and the results have been tallied. Toyota's new Venza is this year's overall winner, supplanting last year's champ, the Volvo XC70. Fierce competition in other categories led to a couple of ties. ema href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nempa-winter-vehicle-award-winners/"Check out the gallery for all the winners.br //abr /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nempa-winter-vehicle-award-winners/"NEMPA Winter Vehicle award winners/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nempa-winter-vehicle-award-winners/1388307/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/winter_car_venza_1280_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Toyota Venza" title="Toyota Venza" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nempa-winter-vehicle-award-winners/1388294/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/winter_car_5er_thumbnail.jpg" alt="BMW 5-Series" title="BMW 5-Series" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nempa-winter-vehicle-award-winners/1388896/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/winter_car_impreza_sport_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Subaru Impreza" title="Subaru Impreza" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nempa-winter-vehicle-award-winners/1388396/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/winter_car_s5_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Audi A5" title="Audi A5" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/nempa-winter-vehicle-award-winners/1388296/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/02/winter_car_borrego_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Kia Borrego" title="Kia Borrego" //a/div/emp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/26/toyota-venza-named-official-winter-vehicle-of-new-england/"Toyota Venza named Official Winter Vehicle of New England/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:28:00 EST. 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