Winners of the Irish Car of the Year Awards 2019
Motoring journalists in Ireland have declared the Volvo XC40 as the Irish Car of the Year for 2019 on Thursday night.
The Volvo XC40 was named as Irish Compact Crossover of the Year category winner at the awards ceremony at Dublin's Gibson Hotel.
Last year's Irish Car of the Year 2017 award was won by the Peugeot 3008.
Apart from the Innovation category award winner, the nine other category winners were all in the running for the top honour with the judging panel of some 33 journalists selecting the Volvo XC40 by a very slim margin.
The Mercedes Benz Sprinter was voted as the Irish Van of the Year 2019.
Bob Flavin, who is a Committee member of the ICOTY said:
“Congratulations to the Volvo XC40 for winning through from a field of some 48 new models launched this year on the Irish market.”
Another ICOTY Committee member, Mark Gallivan added:
“What a wonderful array of cars we had in this year’s competition, it was a very tight race and the XC40 is a very worthy winner.”
Tom Dennigan of Continental Tyres said about the awards:
“The choices of the Irish Car of the Year jury provide a great helping hand to Irish consumers in navigating their way through the bewildering array of high tech vehicles that are launched in Ireland each year and in this regard, Continental is delighted to be associated with the Irish Car of the Year awards.”
The category winners:
- Ford Focus - Irish Small / Compact Car of the Year 2019
- SEAT Arona - Irish Small Crossover of the Year 2019
- Volvo XC40 - Irish Compact Crossover of the Year 2019
- Skoda Karoq - Irish Medium Crossover of the Year 2019
- Volkswagen Touareg - Irish Large Crossover of the Year 2019
- Mercedes Benz CLS - Irish Executive / Premium Car of the Year 2019
- Ford Fiesta ST - Irish Hot Hatchback of the Year 2019
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