Last weekend at the British Motor Show in Farnborough, the all-electric Renault Five E-Tech won the “Best Car of the Year – New Car World Champion 2024-202five” award, having also won the electric car of the year award. . gong.
In addition to the French manufacturer’s two awards, the Best COTY awards went to electric vehicles: BYD won two awards for its EV Seal range, while the electric MG Cyberster took home the award for Best Sports Car of the Year. Meanwhile, the Lexus LBX won the Best Premium Car award, the Romanian-made Dacia Spring won the Best Car of the Year award, and Volkswagen won the Best Car of the Year award. part of a century for its emblematic Golf born in 1974. Array
Established in 2021, the Best Cars of the Year organization is a new and unique awards program in its composition, as it includes judges that include famous automotive designers, engineers, titans of the automotive industry, broadcasters, motorsports legends, journalists and even a member of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
Some of the names on the jury include legendary F1 engineer and McLaren F1 designer Gordon Murray, former Jaguar design director Ian Callum, former F1 driver Ukyo Katayama, former Nissan design lead Shiro Nakamura, the influential stylist who has written car designs for Ford, Mini, Ferrari, BMW and Maserati, Fred Stephenson, former design director of Pininfarina, Fabio Filippini, former CEO of Aston Martin, Andy Palmer, host of the TV series “Car S. O. S. “Tim Shaw, a dozen influential automotive actors, journalists, and even rock ‘n’ roll legend and automobile enthusiast John Oates, famous for the multi-award-winning “Hall and Oates. “
Inspired by the styling of the original 1972 Renault five, the Renault five E-Tech was first shown at the Geneva Motor Show in February 2021 and has one of the most impressive optional extras ever created: a “wand holder”. loaf of bread without spilling crumbs on the floor and seats.
The car will be officially presented to the French public at the upcoming Paris Motor Show in October before going on sale at the end of the year. Unfortunately, it’s not ready to be sold in North America until at least 2027 and under the Alpine brand, the Renault 5 E-Tech is powered by a single 148-horsepower motor with a 52 kWh battery that offers a range of about 250 miles. The maximum DC charging speed is one hundred kW, which means that Renault will reach a speed of 15 to 80% in 30 minutes. The E-Tech also has two-way AC charging, which means you can use your plugged Rfive as a power bank to qualify when power is cheap and then sell it back to the grid when demand is high.
Shiro Nakamura, former Nissan design leader, commented on Renault’s double victory: “Although the new Renault Five is clearly designed as a tribute to the original version, it goes beyond the old-fashioned design and expresses modernity as an electric vehicle. in terms of proportions, surface. Details and colors, fabrics and finishes – especially for your interior.
As a journalist who has been covering this sector for more than 30 years, I would like to say that I believe that the new Renault five E-Tech is a very good piece of design that perfectly combines the essence of the original 1972 car with the shine and the futuristic lines. needed to steer buyers away from hybrids and gasoline cars. This Renault is a keeper and will no doubt win countless more awards in the near future.
For the first time, as far as I know, in addition to the above-mentioned professional jury, members of the public also voted online for the winners, as well as voted as a user on the car show website, broadening the point of interest to car enthusiasts.
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