Kia Sportage and Carnival honoured at TopGear SA awards
23 January, 2024
The inaugural TopGear South Africa awards, presented in partnership with Wesbank saw the TopGear SA team present a total of 24 awards in recognition of the year’s most remarkable cars and the individuals and companies behind them.
Judging for the TopGear SA Awards is a process that takes place throughout the year as the TopGear South Africa team evaluates cars through their ongoing road test and review process. The finalists are then selected before another evaluation and judging process takes place to determine the winners in each category. The evaluation system judges cars on all aspects of performance, ownership, quality, design and innovation. Only cars that the team had actually driven during the year were eligible for the awards.
The Sportage’s most recent award from TopGear South Africa follows three other notable local accolades for the Sportage over the past year, including a category win in the mid-size SUV segment of the SAGMJ’s annual South African Car of the Year competition and Car magazine’s 2024 Best Buy Award in the midsize SUV category. In addition Cars.co.za declared the Sportage CRDi EX a finalist in the publications well-respected consumer awards.
Competing in a small but hotly contested ‘MPV of the Year’ category, the Kia Carnival, which launched in South Africa in January 2022, has received consistent praise from press and customers alike. It’s futuristic design, spacious and practical interior, exceptional list of standard specification and powerful yet frugal turbodiesel powertrain offers customers an unbeatable package at a price point that few rivals can match and these factors impressed the members of the TopGear SA judging panel too.
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