Three Round 1 luxury vehicle winners face off in a challenge to claim the title of Overall Best Luxury Car. How Does ACOTY Define This Class? The Overall Best Luxury Vehicle is chosen from the three Cat B luxury categories' winners from Round 1. Check out their respective Round 1 awards below. Meet The Contenders Audi SQ 7 There's a famous scene in The Godfather movie in which Marlon Brando, playing Don Corleone, says, "I'm ...
Read MoreTwo great MPVs that won in Round 1 slug it out in a fight to claim the title of Overall Best MPV. How Does ACOTY Define This Class? Price, COE category and powertrain notwithstanding, the Overall Best MPV is chosen from the multi-purpose vehicles (MPVs) that won in Round 1. Check out their respective Round 1 awards below. Meet The Contenders Toyota Sienta Hybrid The Toyota Sienta Hybrid feels like more car for the money. Coupled with ...
Read MoreThree Round 1 winners go toe-to-toe for the title of Overall Best Hybrid Vehicle. How Does ACOTY Define This Class? The Overall Best Hybrid Vehicle is chosen from among the winners of the Cat A Hybrid, Cat B Hybrid and Premium Hybrid categories in Round 1. Meet The Contenders Kia Niro Hybrid The Kia Niro Hybrid has sharp, unique looks, an angular, tech-infused cabin and spacious practicality in its favour. How comfy it is and how ...
Read MoreFive excellent Round 1 winners sold with COE Category B slug it out for the title of Overall Best Cat B Vehicle. How Does ACOTY Define This Class? The Overall Best Cat B Vehicle is chosen from among five Cat B winners from Round 1. Check out their respective Round 1 awards below. Meet The Contenders Audi Q3 The Audi Q3 feels like the most grown-up and well-put-together SUV of the trio to the judging panel, which ...
Read MoreSeven winners from Round 1 face off for the title of Overall Best Cat A Vehicle. How Does ACOTY Define This Class? Seven winners from Round 1 are sold with Category A COEs (Cat A COE). The Overall Best Cat A Vehicle is decided from amongst these seven. In this round, we see all manners of body styles with internal combustion engine (ICE), hybrid and electric vehicle guises going up against one ...
Read MoreWith premium hybrid SUVs, the sky's the limit - anything goes! How Does ACOTY Define This Class? The world of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) has proliferated into the upper echelons. SUVs that qualify for this category need to sit in the upper price-percentile tiers and be fitted with hybrid drivetrains. Meet The Contenders Money not an object and a desire to go green without switching to a fully electric vehicle? Here are the three ...
Read MoreTwo hot stationwagons/estates go head-to-head for the title of Best Performance Wagon. How Does ACOTY Define This Class? Stationwagons or estates that qualify for this category need to be sold with Category B COEs. They also need to be hot, performance versions of their tame, mainstream siblings. Pretty straightforward. Meet The Contenders Representing Germany, we have the BMW M3 Touring. Hailing from the Czech Republic is the Škoda Octavia Combi RS 2.0 TSi. The BMW ...
Read MoreA roundup of the best Cat B Hybrid raises some philosophical questions. We live in interesting times. More than once during the voting process, certain cars have challenged the definitions of how cars are classified. Perhaps none were more contentious than the winner of this group. On the face of it, the two cars in this group as clearly recognisable as Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs). Also, this year, they all happened ...
Read MoreThree luxury electric vehicles duke it out for the best luxury EV category crown. How Does ACOTY Define This Class? Vehicles in contention need to sit as their respective manufacturer's flagship, or fall in or above the 90th price percentile compared to the rest of the line-up for ACOTY 2024. This then qualifies them as luxury vehicles. They also need to be propelled solely by electricity. Pretty simple. Meet The Contenders The luxury vehicle ...
Read MoreThree Cat B premium vehicles slug it out for the glory of winning this category's crown. How Does ACOTY Define This Class? Ideally, vehicles need to sit at or above the 50th price percentile to be considered 'premium'. They must also not have appeared in other Round 1 categories as contenders. Finally, those that qualify for this category need to be sold with Category B COEs. Quite simple. Meet The Contenders They're all German. ...
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