Kia’s seven-seater EV9 electrical SUV best choice for feminine motorists
- Women’s Worldwide Car of the Year awards winner introduced
The Women’s Worldwide Car of the Year awards has named Kia’s seven-seater EV9 electrical SUV its supreme champion.
Priced from £65,025, the EV9 was additionally named finest SUV. Other class winners included: the Volvo EX30 (household automobile); BMW Series 5 (massive automobile); Volkswagen Amarok (4×4 & pick-up); and Aston Martin DB12 (unique automobile)
It follows testing of 63 contenders by 75 girls motoring journalists from 52 nations.
Supreme champion: Judges stated the 5m-long EV9 was ‘really a sport changer’ providing distinctive efficiency, innovative design and aerodynamics and superior know-how
Judges stated the 5m-long EV9 was ‘really a sport changer’ providing distinctive efficiency, innovative design and aerodynamics and superior know-how.
It comes as a survey of feminine drivers within the UK by Electrifying.com and The AA reveals that 61 per cent of girls say they really feel much less assured on the prospect of driving an EV than they do a petroleum or diesel automobile.
‘Mundane motors’ tickets on sale
Polish up your Protons, mud down your Datsuns, — tickets for the world’s largest show of mundane motors are on sale now.
The Festival Of The Unexceptional, which celebrates a lot maligned ‘peculiar’ traditional automobiles, celebrates its tenth anniversary at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire on Saturday July 27.
Champion: Last 12 months’s winner was Stephen Pike, pictured, along with his delight and pleasure — a 1991 Daihatsu Applause
Tickets value £35 per automobile and house owners can participate in a contest comprising the 50 most unexceptional motors constructed between 1969 and 1999, chosen by judges in a self-styled ‘battle of the blands’.
Last 12 months’s winner was Stephen Pike. His his delight and pleasure was a 1991 Daihatsu Applause.
For extra data go to hagerty.co.uk/official-events.
