The Hyundai Ioniq 6 has cleaned up at the 2023 World Car of the Year awards, claiming the overall title as well as two other categories.

The curiously-styled Hyundai Ioniq 6 has bagged the overall World Car of the Year award, along with the World Car Design of the Year and World Electric Vehicle Award.

The Hyundai Ioniq 6 saw off the BMW X1 and Kia Niro for the overall title, and the Korean brand has claimed back to back victories after the Hyundai Ioniq 5 won in 2022.

“We are thrilled to receive this prestigious honor two years in a row, which recognizes the tremendous talents and unrelenting efforts of everyone at Hyundai Motor Company to bring EVs likeIoniq 6to market,” said Jaehoon Chang, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Company.

The wild Kia EV6 GT secured the World Performance Car title

Other noteworthy winners include the Lucid Air as World Luxury Car with the BMW 7 Series and Genesis G90 finishing as runners up. The Kia EV6 GT claimed the World Performance Car title, seeing off the new Nissan Z and Toyota GR Corolla.

The World Urban Car Award was snapped by the Citroen C3, while the Volkswagen Taigo and Ora Cat were runners up.

As a reminder, the World Car Awards have a jury of 100 international journalists from 32 countries to vote. Cars.co.za’s very own Hannes Oosthuizen is South Africa’s longest-standing representative on the World Car of the Year jury.

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