{"id":170237,"date":"2017-04-13T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T06:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=170237"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T07:18:24","slug":"the-6-best-cars-in-the-world-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/170237\/the-6-best-cars-in-the-world-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6 best cars in the world in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 World Car Awards winners have been announced, with the organisation naming six of the best cars around the world in a number of different categories.<\/p>\n<p>The WCA are administered by a not-for-profit association, under the guidance of a Steering Committee of distinguished automotive journalists from Asia, Europe, and North America. It is intended to complement, not compete with existing national and regional COTY awards, which are inherently different in scope.<\/p>\n<p>This also means that by its nature, WCOTY includes some vehicles that may be unavailable in individual regions, and excludes others whose availability may be limited to those regions.<\/p>\n<p>Jaguar&#8217;s first SUV, the F-Pace, was named 2017 World Car of the Year at the New York Auto Show, having earlier won World Car Design of the Year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>World Car of the Year &#8211; Jaguar F-Pace<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Runners up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Audi Q5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Voklswagen Tiguan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jaguar-F-Pace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-170239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jaguar-F-Pace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jaguar-F-Pace.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jaguar-F-Pace-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>World Urban Car of the Year &#8211; BMW i3<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Runners up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Citroen C3<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Suzuki Ignis<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BMW-i3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-170243 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BMW-i3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BMW-i3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BMW-i3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>World Luxury Car of the Year 2017 &#8211; Mercedes E-Class<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Runners up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BMW 5 Series<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Volvo S90\/V90<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mercede-E-class.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-170245 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mercede-E-class.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mercede-E-class.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mercede-E-class-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>World Performance Car of the Year 2017 &#8211; Porsche 718 Boxster\/Cayman<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Runners up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Audi R8 Spyder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>McLaren 570S<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Porsche-718.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-170249 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Porsche-718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Porsche-718.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Porsche-718-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>World Green Car of the Year &#8211; Toyota Prius Prime<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Runners up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chevrolet Bolt<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tesla Model X<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Toyota-Prius-Prime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-170251 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Toyota-Prius-Prime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Toyota-Prius-Prime.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Toyota-Prius-Prime-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>World Car Design of the Year &#8211; Jaguar F-Pace<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Runners up:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mercedes S-Class<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Toyota C-HR<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jaguar-F-Pace-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-170253 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jaguar-F-Pace-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jaguar-F-Pace-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jaguar-F-Pace-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/168705\/the-10-best-selling-sports-and-supercars-in-south-africa-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">The 10 best-selling sports and supercars in South Africa right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 World Car Awards winners have been announced, with the organisation naming the 6 best cars around the world in a number of different categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":170239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-170237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170237","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=170237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170267,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170237\/revisions\/170267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}