WELCOME to our shiniest magazine of the year, and our opportunity to hand out the big awards to the best cars in the business.
The New Car Awards are the culmination of 12 months of exhaustive testing at home and abroad by the experienced and insightful Auto Express team, and it was a tricky choice between four or five really brilliant cars for the overall title, with the final decision really very close. That’s a compliment to our overall 2024 Car of the Year, because it had to earn the prize in a field where several models make a convincing and compelling case for the top spot.
All of the contenders combine great value, decent, (comparative) efficiency and stand for all the things buyers look for in that particular segment.…