The New York Auto Show held an award ceremony for World car of the year awards for nearly 20 years. Visitors to this year’s laurels may have wondered if they’d end up at the 2022 New York show, hyundai won the same three awards this year as last year. In 2022, the Ioniq 5 won World Car of the Year, World Electric Vehicle and World Car Design of the Year. At this week’s New York Show, the Ioniq 6 repeated that trio. The battery-powered sedan beat out 29 other vehicles with a variety of powertrains, which that initial group dropped to the top spot. BMW car X1/iX1, Ioniq 6 and Kia Niro.
The top prize is contested between vehicles sold in at least two major world markets on two continents between January 1, 2022 and March 30, 2023, priced below the vehicle’s in primary markets and were produced in large numbers over 10,000 units during that time. sales period.
Hyundai beat out 20 other vehicles for the World Electric Vehicle title, a category opened by the WCOTY board in 2022. The market standard here is the same, but there are no price and threshold limits. production was lowered to 5,000. The runner-up in the category is bmw i7 and clean air. The consolation prize for Lucid Air is to win the World Luxury Car award, beating the BMW 7 Series/i7 and Genesis G90.
Any vehicle that qualifies for any of the WCOTY categories can win the World Car Design award, creating a field of 78 entries. A team of designers including Ian Callum, Patrick le Quement, Tom Matano and Shiro Nakamura narrowed the field down to Range RoverLucid Air and Ioniq 6, giving the blue ribbon to Hyundai.
As if that wasn’t enough, KIA EV6 GT won the laurels for World Performance Car first Toyota GR corolla and the new one NISANZand Hyundai Motor’s design boss Sangyup Lee won the World Car of the Year award.
The only other manufacturer to get a look at this year is Citroen, its C3 took home the World Urban Car award. You can see the voting rankings for the finalists in all categories at the WCOTY page.
