{"id":594134,"date":"2022-06-06T16:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=594134"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:16:36","slug":"these-are-the-best-cars-in-south-africa-across-the-major-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/594134\/these-are-the-best-cars-in-south-africa-across-the-major-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the best cars in South Africa – across the major categories"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African Guild of Mobility Journalists (SAGMJ) has announced the winners of its Car of the Year (COTY) competition, which includes the best vehicles across a range of vehicle categories.<\/p>\n

The winners were selected from 25 semi-finalists and 49 entrants, with jurors test driving and evaluating the vehicles daily to select the eventual winner of each sub-category.<\/p>\n

After a four-week scoring process, the Toyota Corolla Cross was selected as the South African Car of the Year.<\/p>\n

Mercedes Benz C-Class won this year\u2019s prestigious Juror\u2019s Excellence Award. Introduced in 2021, the award only considers the raw scoring of the expert jurors without automated scoring factors. The overall winner includes additional scoring criteria like sales, segment share, and spec-adjusted pricing.<\/p>\n

The Peugeot 208 <\/strong>picked up the Motor Enthusiasts Choice Award, <\/strong>while the Budget and Premium categories did not have any contenders in 2022.<\/p>\n

Winners across the remaining categories included:<\/p>\n

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Compact Category winner – Toyota Urban Cruiser<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Compact Family Category winner – Toyota Corolla Cross<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Midsize Category winner – Mercedes Benz C-Class<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Performance Category winner – Volkswagen Golf GTI<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New-energy Category winner – Toyota Corolla Cross Hybrid<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Adventure Sports-Utility Vehicle Category winner – Toyota Landcruiser 300<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Double Cab 4 X 4 Category winner – Nissan Navara<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read: The cost to insure the most expensive car in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South African Guild of Mobility Journalists (SAGMJ) has announced its list of car of the year winners across every major vehicle category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":554262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-594134","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\/594134","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=594134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594196,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594134\/revisions\/594196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}