carsales Car of the Year 2022 starts here
We list the 30 contenders for our top annual gong
It’s that time of the year again and carsales Car of the Year is go for 2022!
Back to full strength after two years of pandemic-impacted formats, Australia’s number-one automotive consumer award will once again be presented in partnership with top insurer Bingle.
carsales Car of the Year uniquely combines the expertise of our most senior road testers and the automotive industry’s best consumer-focused data.
This year’s winner of carsales COTY will be announced on November 16, but before then we’ll announce our top 10 finalists plus two wildcards next week and once again you’ll get to have your say via a reader poll to decide our 2022 People’s Choice award.
Each step of the carsales COTY determination process is adjudicated by a combination of judges’ votes and cost of ownership rankings – including resale values – courtesy of Australia’s number one automotive valuation authority, RedBook.
So to get things started, our list of 30 contenders for carsales COTY 2022 is revealed below (in alphabetical order).
Each model is a standout performer in its class, representing the best of hundreds of new model variants released in the past 12 months. Each of the vehicles meets our strict eligibility criteria, as follows:
- All-new or substantially upgraded model
- Series-production model on sale this year
- Available for testing by October 31
- Priced below $250,000 (at least one variant)
- Fitted with autonomous emergency braking and a reversing camera as standard across the range
The latter requirement ruled out the new Subaru WRX, Subaru BRZ and Toyota GR 86, manual versions of which are not fitted with AEB.
Other new models released since COTY 2021 but failing to make our list of 30 COTY 2022 contenders include the new Audi RS 3, Chevrolet Corvette, Citroen C4, Nissan Z, Suzuki S-Cross and Volkswagen Golf R and Caddy, the facelifted Hyundai Palisade and Skoda Karoq, and the Lexus UX 300e and Haval Jolion Hybrid.
Meantime the global supply chain crisis scuppered the chances of the Audi e-tron GT, Maserati Grecale, Peugeot 308 and the new Nissan QASHQAI, X-TRAIL and Pathfinder, all of which will now arrive too late for testing this year and will be carried over to carsales COTY 2023.
2022 carsales Car of the Year contenders:
Audi A3
BMW 2 Series Coupe
BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe
BMW i4 Gran Coupe
BMW iX
BYD Atto3
Citroen C5 X
Cupra Formentor
Ford Everest
Genesis GV60
Haval H6 GT
Honda Civic
Honda HR-V
Jeep Grand Cherokee L
Kia EV6
Kia Niro
Lexus LX
Lexus NX
MG ZS EV
Mercedes-Benz C-Class
Mercedes-Benz EQB
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
Porsche Macan
Skoda Fabia
Tesla Model Y
Toyota Corolla Cross
Volkswagen Polo
Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace
Volkswagen T-Roc
Volvo C40
Look out for the announcement of the carsales Car of the Year presented by Bingle finalists next week.
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