The
#1
global auto awards programme, initiated, organised, & conducted by automotive journalists from all over the world. Now celebrating its 20th year!
Drumroll please! The 2020 World Car Awards now have a Top Three shortlist. The Top Three in the world for the most prestigious World Car of the Year 2020 are: The Kia Telluride, Mazda3 and Mazda CX-30!
#WCOTY
A warm welcome to another of our first-time jurors. Joining our family in 2024 from Japan is
@lovecars_jp
. Welcome Manabu san! The World Car Awards family is also celebrating our 20th year since inception!
#WCOTY
#WorldCarAwards
#WCOTY20
Now on to World Performance Car presented by Steering Committee Director Scotty Reiss. Accepting virtually is Christiane Zorn, Head of Audi Product Marketing.
The Volvo XC60 was the first ever
#WCOTY
win for the Swedish manufacturer. It was World Car of the Year in 2018. It’s on display at the first ever standalone World Car Pavilion at a motor show, at Delhi’s
#AutoExpo2020
.
Meet our juror Renuka Kirpalani 🇮🇳 on this
#Saturdayspotlight
. Renuka grew up helping her father build racing cars and restore classics. She’s also raced and rallied herself. Today she is the Editor & Anchor of one of the most watched automobile shows on Indian television.
#WCOTY
And finally the TOP THREE IN THE WORLD for the ultimate prize! 2019 World Car of the Year: Audi
#etron
, Jaguar
#Ipace
, and Volvo
#S60
/
#V60
. The winners will be announced
@NYAutoShow
in April.
The first-ever World Electric Vehicle of the Year is the Hyundai IONIQ 5. Presenting to Jaehoon Chang, Pres & CEO
@Hyundai_Global
is Vice-Chair
@sidpatankar
Finland🇫🇮, USA🇺🇸, Colombia🇨🇴, Canada🇨🇦, Slovenia🇸🇮, Poland🇵🇱, Germany🇩🇪, Mexico🇲🇽, India🇮🇳 - that’s a slice of the WORLD car awards, in one photo! 🔥🔥 Part of our truly global jury.
#WCOTY
#RoadtoWCA2022
#LAtestfest
Tough competition in the 2023 World Luxury Car category.
#Lucid
#Air
that snuck ahead of the other finalists. A new car company, an all-new car, makes this win for the American
#EV
maker very special! It was also the 10th year for this award category which began in 2014.
#WCOTY
We are proud to announce the 5 finalists for the 2022
#WorldCarPersonoftheYear
:
1. Shailesh Chandra, Tata Motors
2. Luc Donckerwolke, Hyundai Motor Group
3. James Gay-Rees & Paul Martin, F1 Drive to Survive
4. Tadge Juechter, GM
5. Linda Zhang, Ford
#WCOTY
#WorldCarAwards
The 2020 World Car Design of the Year winner is the stunning
#Mazda3
. It beat out the Peugeot 208 and the Porsche Taycan to take this coveted category! Congrats Mazda for its second ever Design win.
#WCOTY
We're 24 hours away from finding out which of our 5 finalists will be the 2021 World Car Person of the Year.
@BosePratap
, Tomiko Takeuchi, Akio Toyoda, Euisun Chung, Luc Donckerwolke are the finalists. Tune in to tomorrow for details
#WorldCarAwards
#WCOTY
And now the big one! The final three nominees for WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR 2018 are: Mazda CX-5, Range Rover Velar, Volvo XC60. Congrats to all the finalists. Results in 3 weeks
@NYAutoShow
!
#WCOTY
#WorldCar
#GenevaMotorShow2018
And now...🥁 drumroll please! The 2020 WORLD CAR OF THE YEAR is the Kia
#Telluride
. Thrilled to say this is the first Korean brand car to ever win
#WCOTY
. Many congrats to
#Kia
from all of us at the World Car Awards! The Telluride beat competition from the Mazda3 and Mazda CX-30.
Our jurors who attended the
#wcoty
annual
#LATestFest
for the 2022 World Car Awards, over the past few days. The customary group photo, followed by some pics of some of the groupings by continent/region, and some of our women jurors from around the world!
Celebrating the
#WorldCar
Awards -our multinational, multicultural and multitalented jurors at this year’s
#IAA2019
. Some long standing jurors joined by some of our newly minted ones in this group photo with the 2019
#WCOTY
the Jaguar
#IPACE
Who has won the prestigious 2023 World Car Person of the Year? Our finalists: BYD's Wang Chuanfu, BMW's Dr Stella Clarke, Hyundai Group's Sangyup Lee, Lucid's Peter Rawlinson, Toyota's Naoyuki Sakamoto. Watch to know who's won:
#WCOTY
#WorldCarAwards
We want to introduce you to all the cars on site with us in Pasadena that our
#wcoty
jurors had access to. Let’s begin with the bunch in the running for 2023 World Car of the Year. First three in alphabetical order are - BMW
#X1
, Genesis
#GV60
, and Honda
#HRV
/
#Vezel
.
1/3
86 jurors from 24 countries have voted Carlos Tavares, CEO
@GroupePSA
the World Car Person of the Year. He‘ll receive the award at the
#WCOTY
ceremony in NYC next month. 1/2
1/3 Now here’s a look at the cars from amongst the contenders for the 2023 World EV of the Year, that were present at our L.A. Testing event. The first three: BMW
#i7
, Genesis
#G80Electrified
&
#GV60
.
#WCOTY
#WorldCarAwards
The World Urban Car award category was conceived in 2017. It has been very popular amongst people the world over and sought after by OEMs. Here are all our winners so far! Which one is your favourite?
#WCOTY20
#legacy
#20YearsofWorldCar
#WorldUrbanCar
#WCOTY
The 2020 edition of the
#WorldCarAwards
begins today! Proud to confirm our status as the
#no1
global awards programme for the 7th year in a row acc to Prime Research’s latest Global Automotive Awards media monitoring report. Our audience reach has grown by 16% to a record 247mn!
And finally we have the final three in the running for World Urban Car of the Year 2018: Ford Fiesta, Suzuki Swift, Volkswagen Polo.
#WCOTY
#WorldCar
#GenevaMotorShow2018
JLR has the most wins for World Car Design of the Year. In each year that it won, there was absolutely no surprise why! Gorgeous cars all, with
#Jaguar
&
#LandRover
snapping up three wins each. The F-Pace & I-Pace also won
#WCOTY
in 2017/2019.
#WCOTY20
#legacy
#20YearsofWorldCar
The first award of the morning was for 2023 World Car Design of the Year. The winner is the Hyundai
#IONIQ6
! Hyundai had won this award last year to with the IONIQ 5! And it’s the head of Global Design
@Hyundai_Global
Sangyup Lee again who collects!
#WCOTY
#WorldCarAwards
What a week it has been in sunny Southern California - which never disappoints. With the weather or it’s fabulous roads. As usual the World Car Awards converged on Pasadena for our annual test drive programme. 45 jurors and nearly 30 cars for them to test. It was a hoot!
#wcoty
The World Car of the Year is set to be unveiled in India! Four of our Indian jurors are here to welcome it! And it’s all happening at the historic Gateway of India in Mumbai 🇮🇳
#Hyundai
#IONIQ5
#GatewayOfIndia
@Hyundai_Global
We are a young channel and still have miles to go. But we want to celebrate this humble achievement with you all!
#WorldCarTV
cumulative views have crossed 400,000! Thank you all for the support and patronage!
#WCOTY
#WorldCarAwards
Our Top Five finalists for the 2020 World Car Design of the Year have been declared in the World Car Finals announcement from the Delhi Auto Show.
#WCOTY
The 2023 World Car of the Year is the all-electric Hyundai
#IONIQ6
. Impressive for a variety of reasons, this car is based on the Hyundai Motor Group's very celebrated and successful E-GMP platform. Congrats to
@Hyundai_Global
for this back-to-back win.
#WCOTY
#WorldCarAwards
Many of our jurors are at the
#JapanMobilityShow
and excited to meet one another. From left to right -
Gabriel Gelinas 🇨🇦
Yogendra Pratap 🇮🇳
Sergio Olivera 🇲🇽
Carlos Sandoval 🇲🇽
Maciej Pertynski 🇵🇱
Gerardo Garcia 🇲🇽
Hormazd Sorabjee 🇮🇳
#worldcarawards
#wcoty
#wcoty20
Top three finalists across some categories… who will win?! This is the
#BTS
on our set up for the 2022
#WorldCarAwards
at the New York Intl Auto Show! Stay tuned for the results! And we wish all our top three finalists the best of luck!
#WCOTY
#newyork
#nyias
@NYAutoShow
It’s time for our annual
#WorldCar
LA Test Drives and we have a record number of cars (variants and models included) at 38! And yes a record number of jurors - over half the global panel - attending! Yes... 48 jurors!
#WCOTY
Volkswagen has the most wins for the World Car of the Year award in our 20 year history - with an incredible 5 titles. Audi, Hyundai, Jaguar, and Mazda have 2 wins each.
#WCOTY
#WCOTY20
#legacy
#20YearsofWorldCar
@VW
Meet our juror Hani Musthafa from India 🇮🇳 on this
#saturdayspotlight
. Hani is the most prominent name in automotive journalism from Southern India. In 2010, Hani created his brand Flywheel and the rest is history! Follow the 2022 World Car Awards journey right here!
#WCOTY
🥁Drumroll please!🥁 The finalists for 2022
#WorldCarAwards
are announced! All 6 categories:
#WCOTY
, World Car Design, World Performance Car, World Luxury Car, World Urban Car, World EV of the year. Watch the video to know who made the cut!
#finalists
It's time for the World Car Finals! The first round of voting is complete! The jury has selected our finalists for 2021. Ladies & Gentlemen, presenting the Top Five across all categories and Top Ten for
#WCOTY
2021!
#Watch
the video to find out who made the cut!
#WorldCarAwards
World Performance Car always gets pulses racing! Desirable cars that give you an adrenaline rush, are extremely dynamic, with strong engineering. Should be no surprise the
#Porsche
has won this category the most times; 7 to be precise!
#WCOTY
#WCOTY20
#legacy
#20YearsofWorldCar
The 2022 World Car Person of the Year Luc Donckerwolke, Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer,
@HMGnewsroom
. Our chair Jens Meiners and Vice Chair, Siddharth Vinayak Patankar presented the trophy and had a quick Q&A on stage
We are staging our annual group photo of all attending jurors at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, CA. This school has some famed alumni who have gone in to stellar careers in automotive design.
#wcoty
#worldcarawards
#2023WorldCarAwards
Lots of excitement as Suzuki gets its first ever
#WCOTY
trophy! The 2019 World Urban Car is the Suzuki
#Jimny
. It’s Chief Engineer Hiroyuki Yonezawa claimed the win. With him is
#WorldCarAwards
co-chair Peter Lyon
Audi has won the most awards in our 20 year history with 11 wins across WCOTY, Design, Performance, Luxury. Mercedes-Benz & JLR are tied in second position with 9 wins each. BMW follows with 8, and then VW and Porsche with 7 wins apiece.
#WCOTY
#WCOTY20
#legacy
#20YearsofWorldCar
Just 24 hours away from announcing our Top Three in each category for 2020, we celebrate last year’s hat-trick winner. The Jaguar I-Pace won World Car, World Green & World Car Design of the Year. Who do you think will make our final short list for 2020?
#WorldCar
#WCA2020
#WCOTY