EDITORIAL NOTE
Automotive excellence still the objective, but tweaks are needed
Last Tuesday, at a gala dinner event in Johannesburg, the Wesbank/SAGMJ (South African Guild of Motoring Journalists) Car of the Year competition crowned the Porsche Panamera as the winner of the 2018 competition, beating nine other vehicles which, in their own right, are sterling cars. Following the announcement, there has been some furore from many corners of the automotive industry and the public at large regarding this year’s winner, with many purporting that the result is not representative of the market as few people can afford the winning vehicle. Thus, I decided to outline aspects that we use to arrive at the overall result and the objective thereof, to hopefully cast some light on the judging process itself. The competition is a thorough, methodologically judged process that follows a number of parameters to judge each model by scoring each aspect with a number ranging from 1 and 10 and all digitally linked to a server via a tablet, which each of the 26 judges has in their ...
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