2024 Swiss Car of the Year Selected: Jeep and Skoda won the championship

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Jeep Avenger is the Swiss car of 2024! With more than 15 percent of all votes, the small electric crossover became the first Jeep to capture the prestigious title, easily beating out the other nine finalists.

On the test day at the TCS driving safety facility in Hinwil ZH at the beginning of October, the 13-member expert jury consisting of jury president Monisha Kaltenborn (52), former F1 racing professional Marc Surer (72) and experts from ACS, TCS, VCS, Empa and EKZ In addition, automotive journalists also examined the ten candidates closely. The jury evaluated the candidates according to criteria such as style, technology, innovation and value for money.

Jeep’s victory

With this title, the Avenger became the first all-electric Jeep ever to win: The short 4.08-meter crossover managed to take first place in the European “Car of the Year” election in the spring. Thomas Odier (43), General Manager of FCA Switzerland, cannot believe his luck: “It is the first Jeep developed in Europe for Europe. “It’s great that we can celebrate success so quickly.” The victory is even more significant when you look at the field of participants, from the affordable Dacia Jogger family minivan with petrol hybrid drive to the almost five-metre-long Kia EV9 electric SUV. After the Jeep Avenger, the expert jury selected BMW’s new luxury electric car, the i5, to the winners’ podium, followed by the VW ID.7 in third place.

Skoda is once again the crowd favorite

In the second election, Skoda is planned to win in the public vote for “Switzerland’s favorite car”. More than 31,000 readers of “Schweizer Illustrierte”, Blick and SonntagsBlick as well as “L’illustré” and “La Domenica” magazines voted this year, with 4.5 percent voting first for the Skoda Kodiaq, which will not be launched until spring 2024. He chose. This means that for the fourth time in a row (!) a car from the Czech brand has come out on top among Swiss audiences.

Skoda brand boss Markus Kohler (58) accepts the winning trophy from presenter Jan Billeter (51) on stage in a rather routine manner. Still, Kohler is pleased with the new award: “Great! What could be better than winning the admiration of Mr. and Mrs. Schweizer?” Peugeot’s compact electric car e-308 also took the podium after Kodiaq with 4.1 percent of the votes. As in the expert jury voting, VW ID.7 received 3 percent and 3 percent of the votes. It received third place from the public with 2 votes.

Source: Blick