World Car Awards grows to reach 298 million people

The World Car Awards program has underlined its position as the top car awards in the world for the ninth consecutive year

World Car of the Year trophy

The World Car Awards program has been independently confirmed as the largest automotive awards in the world for the ninth consecutive year.

This is based on media reach across the top 25 global car markets, by analysts Cision Insight.

The World Car Awards audience actually grew by four percent last year, taking its total audience reach up to 298 million people.

The organisation made the announcement as it prepares to launch the 2022 awards season.

This will see one car named 2022 World Car of the Year – with the Volkswagen ID.4 currently holding the 2021 title.

World Car of the Year 2021 Volkswagen ID.4

For 2022, there are eight new jurors, representing Chile, USA, Latin America and Korea.

A total of 94 jurors from across the world make up the World Car Awards jury.

The 2022 awards will begin with ‘The Road to the 2022 Awards’ presentation at the New York International Auto Show on Thursday 19 August 2021 – which will also be hosted on World Car TV.

Here, the reigning winners will be celebrated – and the provisional list of vehicles eligible for the 2022 awards will be revealed.

A series of votes will take place over several months, with the 2022 World Car of the Year set to be announced on 13 April 2022.

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Richard Aucock
Richard Aucockhttps://www.richardaucock.co.uk/
Richard is director at Motoring Research. He has been with us since 2001, and has been a motoring journalist even longer. He won the IMCO Motoring Writer of the Future Award in 1996 and the acclaimed Sir William Lyons Award in 1998. Both awards are run by the Guild of Motoring Writers and Richard is currently vice chair of the world's largest organisation for automotive media professionals. Richard is also a juror and Steering Committee director for World Car Awards and the UK juror for the AUTOBEST awards.

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