The Volvo XC40 has been named as the 2018-2019 Japan Car of the Year, making it the first back-to-back victory for an imported brand – the Swedish marque won the title last year with its XC60.
The SUV, which sits on the company’s Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) platform that was co-developed with Geely, is no stranger to winning a COTY award, having bagged the 2018 European Car of the Year award earlier this year.
The fight was tight between it and the eventual second-placed Toyota Corolla Sport. After the XC40 picked up an early lead, the Corolla came back midway through counting to briefly overtake the Swedish offering before the Volvo accelerated away to win by 49 points, the final score being 363 points for the XC40 and 314 points for the Corolla.
Finishing in third place was the Volkswagen Polo, which managed to obtain 197 points, while the Toyota Crown came fourth with 170 points and the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross finished fifth with 165 points. The voting panel was made up of 60 jurors.
In the special awards categories, the Honda Clarity PHEV (plug-in hybrid) took home the Best Innovation Award while the BMW X2 captured the Emotional Award and the Daihatsu Tocot took home the Small Mobility gong.
Elsewhere, the COTY steering committee’s presented a Special Achievement Award to the Toyota Gazoo Racing team for its winning achievements at the Le Mans 24-hours and the World Rally Championships. The Honda N-Van was also presented with a Special Achievement Award.
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Volvo Polestar Geely > all
this award bodes well for same platform, the X70
To the Jepunis sapoter: Hahahahahahahahahahaha!
It just Volvo named the award, not Geely and far from Proton. Otherwise, Ford should celebrate every single car award in this planet.
Nobody mention Geely or P1. Stop bollocking. Hahahaha
Clean and fair result. Malaysia should emulate Jepunis meritokracy and rights
U mean like how they jailed their saviours? Hahahaha!
Yala… jangan malu malu. The perasan was so strong when the name volvo was mentioned .
Volvo, Mesidis, Proton, Geely > All
Syabas Volvo!!! Proton big brudder✌✌✌
how come how come…the most ultimate HRV, CX3 or even the CHR didn win this???? this is an insult to malaysian drivers’ intelligence…..
Back while studying in Australia I bought the 2012 Ford Focus because it came second in Australian Car of the Year, and my friend bought the VW Golf because it came first. Both transmissions remain unfixed today. COTY competitions are bullsh*t, any china warehouse auntie can cobble together an awesome technology as long as it only needs to last a month, which is just enough to survive these competitions.
There should be a competition where cars are tested for at least 2 years, maybe as a Grab to maximise usage, and then judged just before the model gets a facelift. The losers can still be evaluated so people can decide if they can live with the shortcomings. Brittle plastic? No problem. Broken gearbox? GTFO.
Congratulations Volvo…. but VCM you must improve your service quality as well.
Where is Geely Boyue in the picture? This is because many Proton fanboys are saying that since Geely owns 10% of Daimler, the Boyue and Proton X70 has AMG Mercedes technology in the X70/ Boyue
So where is Geely Boyue? It should be named Car of the Year also
Sour grapes!
VolvoCar, Geely, P1, Mesidis, VolvoTrucks, Lotus > all
Both Volvo and Toyota make very sturdy, confident and long lasting vehicles.
Salute to both Volvo and Toyota brand , you will not go wrong buying these two legendary manufacturers products
A big no for toyota
Overpriced junk, way overpriced vs other competition and not even on par with BMW and Mercedes
If u not afford to buy Volvo, just keep the mouth shut. And just walk to ur BMW and Mercedes.
X2 and X1 and GLA all provide JUNK specs too that reflects BMW and Mercedes brand like a JUNK cars in the making . The design of X1 and GLA looks ugly as ever. X2 is a jack up hatchback and not SUV height at all.
BMW owners are pooret buyers cos they do not pay any cents to service and repair their cars for first five years from.new. After five years, all BMW owners becomes poorer due to repair surfacing without free repair hence automatically the BMW owners will says BMW is actually a JUNK which is always eating and biting their wallets..
They will say time to let go their JUNK BMWs then and the next buyers will becomes suckers to shoulder the costly repairs on their secondhand BMW JUNKS..
Much better than those overpriced and under specs BMW and Mercedes JUNKS that did not even WIN or SMELL any single COTY Awards at all.
Do not forget Mercedes ( especially the A & B class) and most BMW nowadays sell many new JUNKS too !!