poor news as well as great news. After Jaguar deservedly secured its inaugural world vehicle of the Year win earlier this year with the F-Pace, the marque is unlikely to be in a setting to protect its title in 2018. Its duo of all-new Jags – the handsome as well as affordable E-Pace, plus the 100-per-cent electric, game-changing I-Pace – will have to wait up until WCOTY 2019, by which time they’ll be extremely much in the showrooms as well as on the street.
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No matter. sibling business Land Rover will be in the search as well as wishing to take the WCOTY crown for Midlands-based JLR, its extremely valued workers as well as Britain PLC in 2018. In its armoury will be the bulletproof discovery as well as sublime Velar. taking a look at the worldwide competition this pair of SUVs will be up against, mainland Europe (Germany in particular) is, as ever, a remove threat.
• world vehicle of the year 2018 contenders
Not almost as threatening, though, is down-in-the-dumps North America, where once-great names such as GM, Ford as well as Chrysler (but not Jeep) now struggle to style as well as create sufficient really new as well as fascinating products – never mind globally considerable as well as desirable ones.
As for manically chaotic Asia? True, it is worthy of 10 out of 10 for productivity, however China, Japan, South Korea, India as well as others in the region seem keener on yearly churning out millions of mostly underwhelming cars than they perform in developing as well as crafting ‘best in the world’ motor vehicles like, er, Jaguar.
With all this in mind, the extremely British variety Rover Velar has to be one of the favourites to be successful the quintessentially English Jaguar F-Pace as WCOTY champion in 2018.
If that world vehicle of the Year title is the huge one, the world metropolitan vehicle of the Year contest will hold the fiercest scrap ever. all-new versions of the Ford Fiesta, Kia Picanto, Nissan Micra, SEAT Ibiza, Suzuki Swift, VW Polo as well as other accessible, affordable as well as progressively desirable city vehicles as well as superminis go head-to-head for the worldwide ‘urban king’ crown.
These are among the best-value, many state-of-the-art vehicles around. Clued-up purchasers who are wise with their hard-earned money opt for affordable petrol-powered motors such as these. as well as rightly so. They, like the discovery as well as Velar, are brilliant, commonly offered vehicles for a world whose consumers don’t understand exactly how lucky they are to have them.
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