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Six still standing Drumroll, please. The finalists for 2005 North American Car of the Year honors are Chevrolet C6 Corvette, Chrysler 300/300C and Ford Mustang. North American Truck of the Year finalists: Ford Escape Hybrid, Ford Freestyle and Land Rover LR3. For more on the finalists, go to autoweek.com. Winners, as chosen by a panel of 48 automotive journalists, will be announced Jan. 9 at the Detroit auto show. Passat in passing Volkswagen's sixth-generation Passat makes its world debut at the Geneva motor show in March, but the company is already taking the wraps off ...