{"id":1390,"date":"2020-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T07:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/cars2news\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2019-03-31T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T11:34:31","slug":"all-new-volvo-xc60-wins-2018-world-car-of-the-year-bmw-m5-gets-performance-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"All-New Volvo XC60 Wins 2018 World Car Of The Year, BMW M5 Gets Performance Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unveiled last March in Europe, the Swedish company\u2019s BMW X3, Audi Q5 and Mercedes-Benz GLC\u2019s rival was favored over the other two finalists \u2013 the Range Rover Velar and Mazda CX-5.<\/p>\n

The luxury car of the year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Battling in the World Luxury Car category were three Volkswagen Group products: the Audi A8, Porsche Cayenne and Porsche Panamera. And walking home with the award was Ingolstadt\u2019s flagship sedan, which is more modern and mature than ever, after the new generation debuted last summer.<\/p>\n

Best performance model<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another big winner is the latest BMW M5, but in the Performance Car this time. The super sedan beat its competitors in terms of power, as it was easily the most potent of the three, and in all other chapters, too, turning out to be better overall than the Lexus LC 500 and Honda Civic Type R.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not all about power, luxury and state-of-the-art technology, because the Volkswagen Polo sits among the winners. The supermini beat the Ford Fiesta and Suzuki Swift in the Urban Car award.<\/p>\n

The new Nissan Leaf faced the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid and BMW 530e iPerformance in the Green Car award, and claimed the big prize.<\/p>\n

Finally, the World Car Design was won by the Range Rover Velar. The British SUV stood out among the other two finalists: the Volvo XC60 and Lexus LC 500.<\/p>\n

World Car of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 Volvo XC60<\/p>\n

World Luxury Car of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 Audi A8<\/p>\n

World Performance Car of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 BMW M5<\/p>\n

World Urban Car of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 Volkswagen Polo<\/p>\n

World Green Car of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 Nissan Leaf<\/p>\n

World Car Design of the Year<\/strong> \u2013 Range Rover Velar<\/p>\n

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  Unveiled last March in Europe, the Swedish company\u2019s BMW X3, Audi Q5 and Mercedes-Benz GLC\u2019s rival was favored over the other two finalists \u2013 the Range Rover Velar and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[248,748,255,747,689],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}