Car of the Year

  • Cars revealed for the 2020 Autotrader Car of the Year

    The 2020 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year competition has kicked off with a total of 48 vehicles from OEMs qualify to be named semi-finalists. The announcement of the semi-finalists takes place on 25 November 2019. The Mercedes-Benz A-Class won the 2019 AutoTrader South African Car of the...
  • Car of the Year gets a re-shuffle and adds categories

    For the first time since its inception some 34-years ago, categories have been introduced in the AutoTrader South African Car of the Year competition. There are 5 categories and they look like this: Urban Compact (small hatch and sedan). Medium Family (hatchback/medium sedan and MPV). Premium (executive and premium sedans). Leisure SUVs...
  • Road Test: Peugeot 3008 GT-Line… Peugeot’s renaissance?

      Awards are no guarantee of success. And truthfully much of that has to do with there being too many of them. Awards for engines, awards for SUVs, awards for family cars, budget cars, design, safety. Right down to the mere process of cobbling something together be it from...
  • Part 2 of our WesBank COTY Check-in

    We continue our look at this years COTY top ten finalists in this, part 2 of the WesBank COTY check-in. Audi Q5 Despite glaring similarities between this and the old model, the Q5 is in-fact mostly new. Fitting in snugly between the other Audi Q models it provides a...
  • We think new VW Tiguan is SA’s 2017 Car of the Year

    The people’s automaker, VW have raised the bar yet again. Enter the new 2017 Tiguan. In typical VW style it has always been humble in its approach. A respected little SUV that ticked all the right boxes, sold well but then probably missed its next generation revisions by a...