{"id":109047,"date":"2016-01-15T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=109047"},"modified":"2016-01-15T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:51:04","slug":"these-are-the-best-cars-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/109047\/these-are-the-best-cars-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the best cars in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cars.co.za held its annual Consumer Choice Awards on Thursday, naming the winners of South Africa’s best cars across 12 categories.<\/p>\n

The winners were sleceted in two phases: the first phase involved research, analysis and debate on all contenders by the Cars.co.za editorial team.<\/p>\n

In the second phase, the cars were assessed and scored on specific criteria, such as comfort, performance, efficeincy, etc.<\/p>\n

The winners were judged by the editorial team as well as guest judges, and included the results of the Cars.co.za Owner Satisfaction Survey.<\/p>\n

Here are the winners of each category (including the requirements of eligibility).<\/p>\n

Car brand of the year<\/strong>\u00a0 – Toyota<\/p>\n

\"Toyota<\/p>\n

Best Compact Car <\/strong>– Ford Focus 1.0T Trend
\n(List price not exceeding R250,000)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ford<\/p>\n

Best Premium Hatchback<\/strong> – VW Golf GTI DSG
\n(A\u00a0C-segment hatchback\/crossover with a list price of between R300,000 and R500,000)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"VW<\/p>\n

Best Business Class car<\/strong> – Mercedes-Benz C250 AMG Sport
\n(List price of between R400,000 and R700,000)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Merc<\/p>\n

Best First Class Car<\/strong> – Mercedes-Benz S500
\n(List price of more than R1 million)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Merc<\/p>\n

Best Family Car\u00a0<\/strong>– Citroen C4 Picasso e-HDI Intensive
\n(List price of less than R350,000)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Citroen<\/p>\n

Best Leisure Car<\/strong> – Land Rover Discovery Sport SD4 SE
\n(List price of less than R700,000)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Land<\/p>\n

Best Premium SUV<\/strong> – Volvo XC90 D5 Inscription
\n(List price in excess of R700,000)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Volvo<\/p>\n

Best “Fun Car”<\/strong> – Audi TT s Tronic
\n(List price of less than R600,000, entertaining handling, sensory appeal)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Audi<\/p>\n

Best Budget Car<\/strong> – Renault Sandero Expression
\n(List price of R150,000 or less)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Renault<\/p>\n

Design of the year<\/strong> – BMW i3<\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/p>\n

Game Changer of the year<\/strong> – BMW i3<\/p>\n

\"BMW<\/p>\n

A full write up on each winner and why they were selected can be found on Cars.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More on cars<\/h3>\n

The most expensive cars you can buy in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Driving electric vs petrol cars in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 10 most expensive cars in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Slowest cars in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cars.co.za has announced the winners of its annual Consumer Choice Awards, listing the best cars in South Africa across 12 categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":109071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[11001,6537,10997,26,10999],"class_list":["post-109047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-awards","tag-car","tag-cars-co-za","tag-headline","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109073,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109047\/revisions\/109073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}