The #1 global auto awards programme, initiated, organised, & conducted by automotive journalists from all over the world. Now celebrating its 20th year!
2025 World Car Person of the Year finalists announced!
1. Stella Li, Executive Vice President, BYD
2. Simon Humphries, Chief Branding Officer, Toyota
3. Ralph Gilles Chief Design Officer, Stellantis
To know know more about them head on over to our YouTube.com/@worldcartv#wcoty
And finally this is the 6th post of we put out today. Top 5 Finalists for 2025 World Car Design of the Year. This was a shortlist created by our #design panel.
- Baojun Yunduo/Cloud /MG Windsor EV
- Kia EV3
- Mini Cooper
- Toyota Land Cruiser
- Volkswagen ID. Buzz
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Up next we have the Top 5 Finalists for 2025 World Luxury Car:
- Lexus GX
- Porsche Macan
- Porsche Panamera
- Volkswagen ID. Buzz
- Volvo EX90
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Next we have the Top 5 Finalists for 2025 World Urban Car also in alphabetical order:
- BYD Seagull / Dolphin Mini
- Hyundai Inster / Casper Electric
- Mini Cooper
- Mini Cooper Electric
- Suzuki Swift
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Announcing the Top Ten Finalists for 2025 World Car of the Year:
- Audi A5 / S5
- BMW X3
- Ford Mustang
- Hyundai Inster / Casper Electric
- Kia EV3
- Mini Cooper Electric
- Suzuki Swift
- Toyota Camry
- Toyota Land Cruiser / Land Cruiser 250
- VW Tiguan / Tayron
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Are you ready for the new 9th generation Toyota Camry? It’s ready for India. I am glad to have driven it already. It’s a hybrid and has AWD. And a lot of features. It is also up for #wcoty.
The full review is coming soon. For now enjoy this!
SVP
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The L.A. test drives always attract a wide variety of cars. But this year we got a generous share of the compacts. And they also displayed quite a variety of design, tech, engineering, shape, and size!
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All the sports utes! Of the many nominated for the 2025 World Car Awards, a sizeable number showed up for our jurors to test at the L.A. Test Drive this year. Which one is your favourite of this very varied group of SUVs?
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Penultimate test car of the event for me is the Subaru Impreza RSI, painted bright blue and powered by a 2.5-litre ‘boxer’ engine driving through all four wheels. Sadly nowhere near as exciting as that recipe sounds…
Last but certainly not least is the 782hp Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid, a plug-in hybrid that thinks it’s a sports car. Crazy capable. Not sure about the purple-ish colour though.
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There’s infotainment and then there’s this in the @MINIUSA Cooper at @WorldCarAwards LA Test Drives. The guy peeking over the edge is Spike, a virtual assistant. He’s the bar by which I will measure all other infotainment systems.
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