BMW K1600GT won the IBOTY award this year

BMW Motor's Bike K1600GT has won prestigious International Bike Of Year (IBOTY) award for 2011. This multi talented, 6-cylinder super-tourer bike has trounced all the rivals for gaining 1st position by a good margin, while Ducati’s electrifying Diavel is the year runner up & the Aprilia Tuono V4APRC has been ranked third.

IBOTY ranks among the world’s top motor  bike awards which is in its 27th year running and naming a single best motorcycle launched each year. The jury of IBOTY which comprises twenty five automobile magazines and is based on every continent, spreaded across many countries.

This was the 2nd consecutive IBOTY victory of BMW, after their supersports S1000RR which won in last year’s edition. The K1600GTL has also won a Bloomberg UTV Autocar’s Import Bike Of The Year Award this year.

Participating magazines in the IBOTY are: Australian Motorcycle News (Australia), Auto By (Japan), Bike (Scandinavia), Bike (UK), Cycle World (USA), Der Reitwagen (Austria), Inmoto (Italy), KicXstart (Netherlands), Kiwi Rider (New Zealand), La Moto (Spain), Maximoto (France), Moto Culture Asia (Malaysia, Singapore), Moto (Greece), Moto Journal (Canada), Moto & Loisirs (Belgium), Moto Mag (Israel), Motoraj (Czech Republic), Motoron (Turkey), MotoSi (Slovenia), MotorWereld (Belgium), PS Magazin (Germany), Revista Moto (Mexico), SuperBike (South Africa), SwiatMotocykli (Poland) and Autocar India.