All the Awards in one Place and If you enjoy lists, well you’re going to like this!
It’s hard choosing your next car, because to be honest, for most of us, we only have experience of the car we drive on a daily basis, or perhaps things we are being told by friends about their cars.
When we arrive at the car dealership, we get to see the car we think we are interested sitting in a show room and of course it looks lovely, most cars do in that environment. So to help us make our minds up, we get to perhaps take a test drive for 20 minutes or so and whilst that’s going to give an idea of if we could live with the car or not, its not going to tell us if what we are doing is right and its not going to tell us that there are other cars that perhaps we haven’t even considered that we should be looking at also.
Whilst I am not a big fan of awards given to cars by TV Programs and Magazines, they do give us some indication of what ‘other people think’ and usually, before an award has been made, the program or magazine has tested the car for much longer than the 20 minutes you’re likely to get at your local car dealership.
Now, these are only people’s opinions and that does not mean you’re going to like any of these cars, just because someone else did. Awards given to cars have a history of coming back and biting the judges on the bottom or have simply been given to cars that never lived up to their promise.
So here goes, the following is a list of the awards won by different cars in the last six months or so.
I was going to try and group them into categories for which they won the award, however these publications seem to make up their own categories, so we figured it was best just to place them in manufacturer order – Simples!
Audi Q5 – Small 4×4 of the Year (2nd year running) – Business Car Magazine
Audi A1 – Lower Medium Car of the Year – Business Car Magazine
Audi A1 1.4 TFSI Sport – Supermini of the Year – What Car Magazine
Audi A1 1.4 TFSI Sport – Overall Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Audi A3 – Lower Medium Car of the Year – Business Car Magazine
Audi R8 – Sporting Car of the Year (2nd year running) – Business Car Magazine
Audi R8 – Best Performance Car – Auto Express (2010)
Audi TT 2.0 TFSI 211 Sport – Coupe of the Year – What Car Magazine
Bentley Continental GT – Grand Tourer of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Bugatti Veyron Supersport – James May’s Car of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
BMW 320d ES – Compact Executive Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
BMW 320d Efficient Dynamics – Green Car of the Year – Business Car Magazine
BMW 3 Series – Upper Medium Car of the Year – Business Car Magazine
BMW 3 Series – Best Compact Executive – Auto Express (2010)
BMW 3 Series Convertible – Best Convertible – Auto Express (2010)
BMW 5 Series – Business Car of the Year – Business Car Magazine
BMW 5 Series – Executive Car of the Year – Business car Magazine
BMW 5 Series – Best Executive Car – Auto Express (2010)
BMW 520d Touring – Family Car of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
BMW Z4 sDrive 23i – Open Top Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
BMW X5 – Large 4×4 of the Year – Business Car Magazine
BMW – Car Manufacturer of the Year – Business Car Magazine
Citroen DS3 – Overall Car of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Citroen DS3 – Small Car of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Citroen DS3 – Small Car of the Year – Fifth Gear Awards
Jaguar XF 3.0D V6 Luxury – Executive Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Jaguar XJ – Luxury Car of the Year – Business Car Magazine
Jaguar XJ – Luxury Car of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Ferrari 458 Italia – Performance Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Ferrari 458 Italia – Fast Car of the Year – Fifth Gear
Ferrari 458 Italia – Supercar of the Year – GQ Magazine
FIAT 500 – City Car of the Year – Business Car Magazine
Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCi 140 Zetec – Family Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCi 140 Zetec – Estate Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Ford S-Max – MPV of the Year – Business Car Magazine
Ford S-Max – Best MPV – Auto Express (2010)
Hyundai i10 – Best City Car – Auto Express (2010)
Kia Venga – Best Supermini MPV – Auto Express (2010)
Koenigsegg Agera – Hypercar of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Land Rover Discovery 4 – 4×4 of the Year (7th year running) – What Car Magazine
Land Rover Discovery 4 – Best Large SUV – Auto Express (2010)
Land Rover Freelander 2 – Best Compact SUV – Auto Express (2010)
Maserati Grancabrio – Cabrio of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Mazda MX5 – Best Roadster – Auto Express (2010)
Mercedes Benz S-Class S350 CDI Bluetec – Luxury Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Mercedes S-Class – Best Luxury Car – Auto Express (2010)
Mini – Supermini of the Year – Business Car Magazine
Mini – Best Premium Supermini – Auto Express (2010)
Nissan Leaf – Ultra Low Carbon Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Nissan Leaf – European Car of the Year – COY European Judging Panel
Nissan Leaf – Special Award – Auto Express (2010)
Pagani Zonda R – Jeremy Clarkson’s Car of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Peugeot 3008 1.6THP 156 Sport – Crossover Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Peugeot RCZ – Coupe of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Peugeot RCZ – Best Coupe – Auto Express (2010)
Peugeot RCZ – Special Design Award – Auto Express (2010)
Porsche 911 GT2 RS – Richard Hammond’s Car of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Renault Megane Renaultsport 250 Cup – Hot Hatch of the Year – What Car Magazine
SEAT Alhambra 2.0 TDI 140 Ecomotive S – MPV of the Year – What Car Magazine
Skoda Superb 2.0 TDI Estate – Tow Car of the Year – The Caravan Club
Skoda Superb Estate – Family Car of the Year – Fifth Gear
Skoda Yeti – Car of the Year – Auto Express (2010)
Skoda Yeti – Best Crossover – Auto Express (2010)
Volkswagen Golf 1.4 TSI 122 Match 5dr – Small Family Car of the Year – What Car Magazine
Volkswagen Touran – Mini MPV of the Year – Business Car Magazine
Volkswagen Golf R – Hot Hatch of the Year – Top Gear Magazine
Volkswagen – Security Award – What Car Magazine
Volkswagen Golf – Fleet Car of the Year – Association of Car Fleet Operators (ACFO)
Volvo – Safety Award – What Car Magazine
Fleet News also publishes a list of its most reliable cars, vans and manufacturers and results of the latest research are due out a little later in the year, but meanwhile, below are details of who won what in 2010
FN50 Survey most reliable cars
1 BMW 3 Series
2 Honda Accord
3 Audi A4
4 Nissan Qashqai
5 BMW 1 Series
6 Ford Fiesta
7 Mercedes Benz C-Class
8 Toyota Avensis
9 Honda Civic
10 Volkswagen Golf
FN50 Survey most reliable car manufacturers
1 Honda
2 Volkswagen
3 BMW
FN50 Survey most reliable commercial vehicles
1 Ford Transit
2 Mercedes Benz Sprinter
3 Ford Transit Connect
4 Citroen Berlingo
5 Citroen Relay
6 Vauxhall Combo
7 Nissan Navara
8 Vauxhall Vivaro
9 Volkswagen Caddy
10 Volkswagen Transporter
As you know if you’ve visited our website before, we do road tests on some of the vehicles we use and like the awards above, we don’t claim them to definitive and we simply tell you what we liked and what we didn’t like and if we felt we could live with a car or van for perhaps 3 years if we were given it by our employers. Check out what we think?
