2020 World Car Awards: Top three finalists announced

The 'Top Three Finalists' for each category of the 2020 World Car Awards have been announced.

In the build-up to the announcement of the 2020 World Car Awards winners on the 8th of April, 2020, the finalists in each of the five categories have been revealed today. With this announcement, the 2020 World Car Awards moves into its final phase before the final announcement of the prestigious awards. The World Car Awards jurors consist of 86 distinguished international automotive journalists. Our Editor of autoX, Dhruv Behl, is also a part of this jury, and here’s what he’s had to say about this years’ experience at the World Car Awards proceedings – The World Car Test Drives cement my Neanderthal disposition

For this round of the awards, the jurors selected the finalists by secret ballot based on their evaluation of each eligible vehicles. KPMG was called in to tabulate the vote results in an independent manner.

And here’s a look at the 'Top Three in the World' finalists for each category:

World Car of the Year

• Kia Telluride
• Mazda CX-30
• Mazda3

World Urban Car

• Kia Soul EV
• Mini Electric
• Volkswagen T-Cross

World Luxury Car

• Mercedes Benz EQC
• Porsche 911
• Porsche Taycan

World Performance Car

• Porsche 718 Spyder/Cayman GT4
• Porsche 911
• Porsche Taycan

World Car Design of the Year

• Mazda3
• Peugeot 208
• Porsche Taycan

The winners for each category will be announced at the upcoming 2020 New York Auto Show.

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