Nissan, Mazda and Porsche Winners of the First ASEAN Car of the Year (ACOTY)

Kuala Lumpur: Nissan, Mazda and Porsche were the leaders of the inaugural 2015 ASEAN Car of the Year (ACOTY) award in held in Kuala Lumpur yesterday evening. ACOTY is first of its kind non-profit event in the ASEAN region, which was organized for the first time in joint efforts of motoring journalists hailing from Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

The German engineered Porsche Macan was declared as the overall winner of the inaugural award ceremony. Whereas, the Japanese car Mazda 2 scored the second position at the event and Nissan's X-Trail rounded up at the third position.

The performance of the vehicles was judged under the supervision of 9 motoring journalists from Malaysia, 6 from Thailand, and another 7 from Indonesia who evaluated the vehicle's product appeal. Besides that, Opal Auto Mart, an aftermarket warranty service provider evaluated the brand's reliability on the grounds of its huge database of servicing and customer experience data. Liberty Insurance company provided scores to the vehicles on the depreciation values. Apart from all this, public voting was also conducted on the basis of their user experience, sales satisfaction and after sales experiences.

Mr. Bobby Ang , Secretary, 2015 ACOTY said at the award presentation ceremony, “With ASEAN’s growing importance in the global automotive industry landscape, it is important to create a bridge of acknowledgement for this region in the form of an automotive awards program to translate market needs towards the effort of car makers operating in this region.

ACOTY is striving hard to make the awards distribution as transparent as possible, as a part of which the organisers have made additional efforts to provide complete details of the score breakdown for finalists of each award category. These scores can be viewed by the public on caroftheyear.asia website from next week.

Winners of 2015 ASEAN Car of the Year Awards (Overall Category)

Position	Vehicle
First place	Porsche Macan
Second place	Mazda 2
Third place	Nissan X-Trail

Winners of 2015 ASEAN Car of the Year Awards (Malaysia Category)

Award Title	Vehicle
Budget Car of the Year	Kia Picanto
Compact Car of the Year	Mazda2
Family Car of the Year	Mazda3
Executive Car of the Year	Honda Accord
Family MPV of the Year	Mazda Biante
Premium MPV of the Year	Honda Odyssey
Crossover of the Year	Honda HR-V
Compact SUV of the Year	Mazda CX-5
Family SUV of the Year	Nissan X-Trail
Pick-up Truck of the Year	Ford Ranger
Coupe of the Year	BMW 2-Series
Premium Compact of the Year	Volvo V40
Premium Family Car of the Year	Mercedes-Benz C-Class
Premium Executive Car of the Year	BMW 5-Series
Premium Flagship of the Year	Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Premium Compact SUV of the Year	Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Premium Mid-size SUV of the Year	Porsche Macan
Premium SUV of the Year	Porsche Cayenne
Premium Coupe of the Year	Audi TT
Performance Car of the Year	Mercedes-Benz AMG GT
Grand Tourer of the Year	Porsche Panamera
Driver’s Car of the Year	Volkswagen Golf R

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