Best Cars of the Year (Best COTY) is an unaffiliated, not-for-profit organisation that devised and runs the New Car World Championships.
At the heart of the project sits a genuinely unique, hand-picked judging panel that votes for (or against), then announces the latest World Champion vehicles for consumers across the globe.
Those hugely experienced international judges include independent, world-renowned car designers, engineers, auto industry titans, motorsport legends, journalists, broadcasters, media professionals, vehicle retailers, automotive consultants, motor club chiefs plus major motoring events organisers. Many of these individuals are award winners in their own right.
They collectively operate under an unrestrictive system that enables them to cast their votes for any all-new car or car-like quadricycle regardless of its production volumes. These appointed official judges at the Best Cars of the Year organisation are free to vote for models that are big or small; expensive or cheap; fuelled by petrol, petrol-electric (hybrid), 100 per cent-electric, diesel, LPG, hydrogen or solar power.