The 2019 European Car of the Year is officially the Jaguar I-Pace (250 pts, 18 1st place nominations), with the Alpine A110 (250 pts, 16 1st place nominations) and Kia Ceed (247 pts) closely trailing. And that gave me an idea. What if we were the judges in that competition? There are 25 points to give to at least five of the competing cars, with no more than 10 per car and no joint top mark. The cars are Jaguar I-Pace, Alpine A110, Kia Ceed, Ford Focus, Citroen C5 Aircross, Peugeot 508 and Mercedes A-Class. What are your choices? For me, it's: Kia - 9 points. Great car with good value for money. Citroen - 7 points. Not as good, but redeems itself with value for money. Ford - 4 points. Close, but no cigar. Alpine - 3 points. At least has a good direction with lightness. Jaguar - 2 points. Same as the Focus when compared with Teslas, but a bit worse value-for-money and likely reliability. The Peugeot and Mercedes disqualified themselves with their pricing.
