Skoda Citigo Named Car Of The Year By Auto Express

Auto Express last night named the Skoda Citigo as Car of the Year 2012 at the annual Auto Express New Car Awards held at the Connaught Rooms in London’s West End.

In total, Skoda won five Awards, with the Citigo also being named best City Car, the Superb winning the Best Family Car and Best Estate Car Awards and the brand taking the Driver Power Award for customer satisfaction.

Auto Express editor-in-chief, Steve Fowler, commented: “These Car of the Year Awards are proof that Skoda’s now a big league car maker – and in many ways it’s outshining parent brand VW!”

“The Citigo offers small car buyers the space, quality and comfort normally associated with much larger cars, but at a fraction of the cost. It’s simply sensational value-for-money.”

In Jubilee year, there was Royal success at the Awards with the inaugural Auto Express Safety Award presented to HRH Prince Michael of Kent in recognition of his work to promote road safety around the world. Steve Fowler said: “Prince Michael is more often associated with handing out Awards than receiving them, through the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards. But we felt his personal efforts to promote road safety for over 25 years were worthy of an award itself.”

Further British success went the way of Land Rover with the Discovery winning a record eighth consecutive Auto Express Award as it was named Best Large SUV. Last year’s Car of the Year, the Range Rover Evoque, was named Best Compact SUV for the second year running, too.

Not to be outdone, Jaguar’s C-X16 concept car, previewing the new Jaguar F-Type, won the Auto Express Design Award – voted for by users of AutoExpress.co.uk.

[B]Auto Express New Car Awards Winners 2012[/B]
City Car - Skoda Citigo
Supermini - Peugeot 208
Compact Family Car - BMW 1 Series
Family Car - Skoda Superb
Five-seat MPV - Ford C-MAX
Seven-seat MPV - SEAT Alhambra
Estate Car - Skoda Superb
Crossover - Mazda CX-5
Compact SUV - Range Rover Evoque
Large SUV - Land Rover Discovery
Hot Hatch - Ford Focus ST
Convertible - Volkswagen Golf Cabriolet
Coupé - Peugeot RCZ
Roadster - Porsche Boxster
Pick-up - VW Amarok
Compact Executive Car - BMW 3 Series
Executive Car - BMW 5 Series
Luxury Car - Mercedes S-Class
Performance Car - Ferrari 458 Italia
Green Award - Vauxhall Ampera
Design Award - Jaguar C-X16
Driver Power Award - Skoda

Car of the Year - Skoda Citigo

Credits: wilswong