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Hyundai Ioniq 5 Takes the Cake at 2022 World Car Awards

In addition to overall World Car of the Year, the Ioniq 5 won the World Electric Car and World Car Design categories.

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The New York Auto Show kicked off Wednesday with the announcement of the 2022 World Car Awards, and across several categories, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 took top honors. Hyundai's space-age-looking EV beat its kissin' cousin, the Kia EV6, and the Ford Mustang Mach-E for the overall World Car of the Year award. (Full disclosure: I'm a member of the WCA jury.)

This is the first year all of the World Car of the Year finalists were electric vehicles. This is in addition to a dedicated World Electric Car category, which the Ioniq 5 also won, besting the Audi E-Tron GT and Mercedes-Benz EQS.

The Ioniq 5 also won the World Car Design award, which makes sense, considering it looks rad as heck. In fact, across all of the World Car Awards, it was nearly a fully electric sweep, save for the World Urban Car. Here's a look at the other winners.

The World Car Awards are decided by a panel of 102 jurors from 33 countries. Recent World Car of the Year winners include the Volkswagen ID 4 in 2021, the Kia Telluride in 2020 and the Jaguar I-Pace in 2019.

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Steven Ewing spent his childhood reading car magazines, making his career as an automotive journalist an absolute dream job. After getting his foot in the door at Automobile while he was still a teenager, Ewing found homes on the mastheads at Winding Road magazine, Autoblog and Motor1.com before joining the CNET team in 2018. He has also served on the World Car Awards jury. Ewing grew up ingrained in the car culture of Detroit -- the Motor City -- before eventually moving to Los Angeles. In his free time, Ewing loves to cook, binge trash TV and play the drums.
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