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These cars could win the 2020 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year!

Liana Shaw by Liana Shaw
December 12, 2019
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The top 14 finalists for the 2020 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year have been announced – one of these cars will win the sought-after crown!

The cars can also win one of seven categories: Family, Leisure, Lifestyle, Premium Car, Premium SUV, Sport/Performance or Urban. The most hotly contested category is Leisure, with four finalists: the Peugeot 5008, Toyota RAV4, Citroën C3 Aircross and Volkswagen T-Cross. The Premium SUV category is also well populated, with three finalists: the BMW X5, Jaguar I-PACE and Mercedes-Benz GLE. There are two finalists in the Urban and Family categories. The Hyundai Atos and Suzuki Swift Sport are fighting it out for laurels in Urban while the Mazda3 and Toyota Corolla Hatch are going tooth and nail for top honours in the Family category.

There is one finalist in each of the remaining three categories: the BMW 3 Series is the finalist in the Premium Car category, the Sports/Performance category has the Toyota GR Supra as its finalist and the Ford Ranger Raptor is the sole finalist in the Lifestyle category.

A win in the prestigious 2020 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year competition will be significant for all of the brands involved in the contest. For some of the finalists to win, it would really be one for the history books. Citroën, for instance, has yet to win South Africa’s most sought-after motoring accolade – and the timing could not be better, given the fact that the French manufacturer has just re-entered the South African market. Suzuki did exceptionally well in the 2019 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year, with its Swift and Jimny winning their categories (Urban Compact and Lifestyle Utility respectively). However, it’s never notched up an overall win. An electric car and a bakkie have never won the competition either, meaning an I-PACE or Raptor victory will be truly momentous.

According to Vivien Natasen, chairman of the 2020 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year competition and honorary secretary of the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists (which organises the competition), there are some really strong contenders in this year’s contest. “Right now, there is no clear frontrunner, it anyone’s guess as to which car will win,” he notes.

AutoTrader CEO, George Mienie, reveals that members of the public would like to see a win by the Mazda3. “It triumphed in the consumer vote, where we had hundreds of thousands of votes. The consumer votes act as the 28th Juror in the competition. Mazda’s last win was back in 2008, with the Mazda2 1.5 Individual – so it will be interesting to see if this Japanese company can take top honours,” he comments.

Mienie adds that fellow Japanese automaker, Toyota, has good odds for a possible win. “Toyota is the only company with three finalists in the 2020 competition,” he points out. Toyota notched up two overall wins in the 1980s – the Toyota Corolla Twin Cam won in 1986 and the Toyota Corolla GLi Executive took the title in 1989. However, a win has proved elusive for the company since then.

The finalists were named at an event in Johannesburg on December 4. The next step in the 2020 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year journey is the track and road testing of the finalists in March 2020 by 27 of South Africa’s top motoring journalists. The category and overall winners will be announced at an event hosted by AutoTrader in April 2020.

For more information visit https://www.autotradercoty.co.za/

2020 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year Finalists

  • BMW 3 Series
  • BMW X5
  • Citroën C3 Aircross
  • Ford Ranger Raptor
  • Hyundai Atos
  • Jaguar I-PACE 
  • Mazda3
  • Mercedes-Benz GLE
  • Peugeot 5008
  • Suzuki Swift Sport
  • Toyota Corolla Hatch
  • Toyota GR Supra
  • Toyota RAV4
  • Volkswagen T-Cross

2020 AutoTrader South African Car of the Year Finalists by Category

Family

  • Mazda3
  • Toyota Corolla Hatch

Leisure

  • Citroën C3 Aircross
  • Peugeot 5008
  • Toyota RAV4
  • Volkswagen T-Cross

Lifestyle

  • Ford Ranger Raptor

Premium Car

  • BMW 3 Series

Premium SUV

  • BMW X5
  • Jaguar I-PACE
  • Mercedes-Benz GLE

Sports/Performance

  • Toyota GR Supra

Urban

  • Hyundai Atos
  • Suzuki Swift Sport
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  1. Renault service centre says:
    11 months ago

    It was a great read. Thanks for the list of cars.

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