The Canadian Car of the Year Awards (CCOTY) program, Co-Chaired by yours truly, has announced its big winners during the opening ceremonies of the Toronto Auto Show earlier this week.
After first achieving the highest scores in their individual testing categories, and then achieving the highest scores against all other category winners under a different set of ‘big picture’ criteria, the 2016 Honda Civic and Mazda CX-3 are this year’s Canadian Car of the Year, and Canadian Utility Vehicle of the Year, respectively.
The awards come after a panel of Canada’s top auto experts drive and score each vehicle after a week-long, back-t0-back testing exercise every fall. Back to back testing, with all competitors tested on the same day, on the same roads and under the same conditions, lie at the core of the program.
All scoring and voting data on all winners, and all tested models, is available as a public resource here.
Here’s a quick video on the awards press conference, with some background data on how the Canadian Car of the Year Awards Program works.