(Wednesday 27 June 2012)

Skoda emerged from last night's Auto Express awards ceremony with more honours than any other manufacturer. The Citigo was named Car of the Year for 2012, as well as best City Car, while the Superb won the Family and Estate categories. Skoda also received the Driver Power award after finishing at the top of a reader satisfaction poll.

BMW won the Compact Family, Compact Executive and Executive categories with the 1-Series, 3-Series and 5-Series respectively, while four brands had double success: Ford with the C-MAX (Five-Seat MPV) and Hot hatch (Focus ST), Land Rover with the Discovery (Large SUV) and Range Rover Evoque (Compact SUV), Peugeot with the new 208 (Supermini) and RCZ (Coup) and Volkswagen with the Amarok (Pickup) and Golf Cabriolet (Convertible).

Other category wins went to the Ferrari 458 Italia (Performance), Mazda CX-5 (Crossover), Mercedes-Benz S-Class (Luxury) and SEAT Alhambra (Seven-Seat MPV).

The Vauxhall Ampera and Jaguar C-X16 concept were voted greenest and best-designed cars respectively. Two human beings were also honoured: HRH Prince Michael of Kent, who is of course quite highly honoured already, was given the Safety Award for his personal efforts to promote road safety over the past 25 years, and Nissan Executive Vice-President Andy Palmer was inducted into the Auto Express Hall of Fame.

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Skoda Success At Auto Express 2012