An international panel of sixty motoring journalists has decided that the Volvo XC40 is 2018’s European Car of the Year.
Each juror had twenty-five points to apportion across the seven nominees (with a maximum permitted allocation of ten points per car). The Swedish compact SUV managed to attract 21.7% of the total, so it achieved an emphatic victory.
Perhaps surprisingly, the Seat Ibiza ended up in second place, while BMW’s 5 Series occupied the third podium position.
2018 European Car of the Year - Final Results | ||
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1 | Volvo XC40 | 325 points (21.7%) |
2 | Seat Ibiza | 242 points (16.1%) |
3 | BMW 5 Series | 226 points (15.1%) |
4 | Kia Stinger | 204 points (13.6%) |
5 | Citroën C3 Aircross | 171 points (11.4%) |
6 | Audi A8 | 169 points (11.3%) |
7 | Alfa Romeo Stelvio | 163 points (10.9%) |
The voting again exhibited some national biases. For instance, the six representatives from Germany gave 29.3% of their available marks to the BMW. In a similar vein, the Alfa Romeo and Citroën scored extremely well with the Italians and French respectively.
Sweden almost bucked the trend, though. That country’s three delegates did bestow a large 24.0% points share upon the Volvo, but bizarrely they also allotted 30.7% to the relatively unpopular Audi.
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