{"id":563842,"date":"2022-03-01T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=563842"},"modified":"2022-03-01T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T13:39:53","slug":"here-are-europes-best-cars-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/563842\/here-are-europes-best-cars-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are Europe’s best cars for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The all-new Kia EV6 has been named the 2022 Car of the Year in the prestigious European Car of the Year (COTY) awards. The innovative all-electric crossover was voted the overall winner by a 61-strong jury consisting of motoring journalists from 23 European countries.<\/p>\n

The Kia EV6 was initially listed for consideration for the top award alongside over sixty models that launched during 2021. In November, the COTY jury whittled the list down to a seven-strong shortlist, six of which were electric vehicles (EVs), further demonstrating the growing importance of electric vehicles to consumers as society transitions towards a new mobility future.<\/p>\n

The EV6 fought off competition from the Hyundai IONIQ 5, Ford Mustang Mach-E, \u0160koda Enyaq iV, Cupra Born, Renault M\u00e9gane E-Tech and Peugeot 308 to be crowned 2022 European Car of the Year.<\/p>\n

The EV6 is the first of seven dedicated EV models Kia plans to launch by 2026. The all-electric crossover will play a key role in the company\u2019s plans to become a leading global sustainable mobility solutions provider, the Korean carmaker said.<\/p>\n

Kia EV6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Renault Megane Electric<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hyundai Ioniq 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Peugeot 308<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Skoda Enyaq iVL<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ford Mustang Mach-e<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cupra Born<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read: New Range Rover pricing for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The all-new Kia EV6 has been named the 2022 Car of the Year in the prestigious European Car of the Year (COTY) awards. The innovative all-electric crossover was voted the overall winner by a 61-strong jury consisting of motoring journalists from 23 European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":563858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-563842","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\/563842","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=563842"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563876,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563842\/revisions\/563876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}