{"id":151629,"date":"2017-01-19T22:03:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T20:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=151629"},"modified":"2017-01-19T22:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T20:03:42","slug":"here-are-south-africas-best-cars-across-13-major-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/151629\/here-are-south-africas-best-cars-across-13-major-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are South Africa’s best cars across 13 major categories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Car advertising website<\/span>, Cars.co.za has announced a list of 13 winning cars across a range of categories in its second annual consumer awards in conjunction with WesBank.<\/p>\n

The winning vehicles were announced at an event held at Vodaworld in Midrand, on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

The group initially announced 39 finalists \u2013 3 in each of the 13 respective categories \u2013\u00a0 in October 2016.<\/p>\n

The finalists were selected from a group of 65 cars that the seven members of the Cars.co.za<\/a> editorial team agreed were the best derivatives available in the South African new vehicle market on 1 September 2016.<\/p>\n

To reduce the selection of vehicles per category from five to three, the same team ranked the contenders against predetermined pillars of success.<\/p>\n

As many as 18 brands were represented in the list of finalists.<\/p>\n

In November, a combined judging panel evaluated the finalists back-to-back during a two-day testing session at Gerotek.<\/p>\n

The findings of the 14 judges accounted for half of the finalists\u2019 total scores \u2013 the remaining 50% were based on rankings that the respective vehicles\u2019 brands achieved in the Cars.co.za Ownership Satisfaction Survey.<\/p>\n

The data incorporated feedback from tens of thousands of vehicle owners, based on their experiences of their vehicles, Cars.co.za said.<\/p>\n

These are the winning vehicles:<\/p>\n

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Premium hatchback \u2013 between R350 000 and R500 000<\/strong><\/p>\n