The Hyundai Ioniq 6 has cleaned up at the 2023 World Car of the Year awards, claiming the overall title as well as two other categories.
The curiously-styled Hyundai Ioniq 6 has bagged the overall World Car of the Year award, along with the World Car Design of the Year and World Electric Vehicle Award.
The Hyundai Ioniq 6 saw off the BMW X1 and Kia Niro for the overall title, and the Korean brand has claimed back to back victories after the Hyundai Ioniq 5 won in 2022.
“We are thrilled to receive this prestigious honor two years in a row, which recognizes the tremendous talents and unrelenting efforts of everyone at Hyundai Motor Company to bring EVs like Ioniq 6 to market,” said Jaehoon Chang, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company.
Other noteworthy winners include the Lucid Air as World Luxury Car with the BMW 7 Series and Genesis G90 finishing as runners up. The Kia EV6 GT claimed the World Performance Car title, seeing off the new Nissan Z and Toyota GR Corolla.
The World Urban Car Award was snapped by the Citroen C3, while the Volkswagen Taigo and Ora Cat were runners up.
As a reminder, the World Car Awards have a jury of 100 international journalists from 32 countries to vote. Cars.co.za’s very own Hannes Oosthuizen is South Africa’s longest-standing representative on the World Car of the Year jury.
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