Kia & Hyundai EVs Scoop Up Two Extra Large Awards

Final Up to date on: twenty fourth June 2025, 12:07 am

Hyundai’s & Kia’s electrical automobiles have been extremely acclaimed for years, however particularly the previous few years, and so they hold profitable award after award. Raymond Tribdino simply wrote concerning the Kia EV3 profitable the World Automotive of the 12 months award on the New York Worldwide Auto Present, and I really thought at first it was about different information that simply got here out immediately. The Kia EV3 simply received the Automotive of the 12 months award on the 2025 Autotrader Drivers’ Selection Awards.

The EV3 really received each the “Automotive of the 12 months” award the “Greatest Mainstream Electrical Automotive” award.

“Previously often called the Autotrader New Automotive Awards, the Drivers’ Selection Awards acknowledges 25 classes of automobiles, with finalists and winners decided by the real-world suggestions from over 225,000 UK automotive house owners via a web based survey. Every automobile is rated throughout 16 totally different standards — starting from reliability and efficiency to look and working prices. Homeowners had been additionally requested about their general satisfaction and the way probably they’d be to suggest their automotive to others,” Kia shares.

“The EV3 impressed drivers throughout the UK with its excellent worth, intelligent packaging and spectacular refinement. Homeowners praised it for representing one of the best of one of the best within the ‘mainstream’ market phase — and one of the best automotive general of 2025.” That’s fairly an achievement the corporate earned.

“It might be Kia’s most reasonably priced present EV on sale, however the EV3 nonetheless manages to pack a premium punch. It scored prime marks for the standard of its options which, mixed with eye-catching appears to be like and an ideal driving expertise, has made the EV3 a large hit with its house owners,” added Erin Baker, Autotrader’s Editorial Director. “One advised us: ‘This was my first ever electrical automotive, and it actually stood out amongst all the opposite EVs, significantly inside my value bracket. It’s quirky, futuristic, packed stuffed with good options, and it’s very easy to drive. Plus, I can get the entire household in it with room to spare. We completely find it irresistible.’ Congratulations Kia on a really well-deserved win.” Certainly.

It is a repeat of the Kia EV6 profitable the Automotive of the 12 months award final yr.

Cousin Hyundai additionally had so much to cheer about. The Hyundai IONIQ 5 was named “Greatest Automotive for Metropolis Drivers” on the similar Drivers’ Selection Awards. “A clean drive and nice visibility are two of the important thing options of the IONIQ 5, which make it the best selection for metropolis drivers on this yr’s awards,” Erin Baker, Autotrader Editorial Director, writes. “Homeowners advised us they cherished its mixture of distinctive appears to be like and practicality, with one saying: ‘It’s a pleasure to drive, has all the facility I might need, has nice acceleration and journey consolation, appears to be like unbelievable and handles extraordinarily properly after I’m driving round city’.”

So, whereas it couldn’t take care of the super-competitive EV3, the IONIQ 5 did pull in a really optimistic and noteworthy “Greatest Automotive for Metropolis Drivers” from the Autotrader awards.

Hyundai and Kia simply hold scooping up awards. Congratulations to the Korean automakers for creating nice electrical automobiles. As Raymond stated, the hot button is they only hold doing this time and again.