The Mazda3 Is The Best Designed Motorcar Inwards The World

Design experts as well as journalists get got spoken: the Mazda3 is the best designed machine inward the world. This comes equally the compact sportback was judged the 2020 World Car Design of the Year.

The 2020 Mazda3 is the kickoff vehicle to showcase the Evolved Kodo design, a to a greater extent than mature rendition targeting greater styling prestige through the elegance as well as rigor of a minimalist, less-is-more aesthetic inspired past times the purest traditions of Japanese fine art as well as the beauty of infinite betwixt objects.

This twelvemonth marks the instant fourth dimension for Mazda to win the award. The kickoff fourth dimension was inward 2016 amongst the MX-5 which besides won the World Car of the Year.

“Before accepting this prize, Mazda Motor Corporation would similar to limited our sympathy for all of those affected past times the new coronavirus,” said Akira Marumoto, Representative Director, President as well as CEO, Mazda Motor Corporation. “We are very honored to endure able to have the World Car Design of the Year accolade inward this particular twelvemonth mark the 100th anniversary of Mazda’s foundation. We volition driblet dead on providing our customers amongst unique products, designs, technologies as well as experiences.”

According to the World Car of the Year, the recipient of the World Car Design of the Year goes to a vehicle that shows invention as well as pushes established boundaries.

This year, the cars eligible for the 2020 World Car Design of the Year accolade encompassed all the contenders competing inward the other accolade categories: World Performance Car, World Luxury Car, World Urban Car, as well as World Car of the Year.

H5N1 pattern panel consisting of vii highly respected basis pattern experts was asked to kickoff review each candidate, as well as hence constitute a short-list of recommendations for the jurors. The pattern experts are inward alphabetical order: Anne Asensio (France – Vice-President, Design, Dassault Systemes), Gernot Bracht (Germany – Pforzheim Design School), Ian Callum (United Kingdom – Director of Design, CALLUM), Patrick le Quément (France – Designer as well as President of the Strategy Committee, The Sustainable Design School), Tom Matano (USA – School of Industrial Design at Academy of Art University inward San Francisco), Gordon Murray (U.K. - Gordon Murray Design), as well as Shiro Nakamura (Japan - CEO, Shiro Nakamura Design Associates Inc.).

After much deliberation, the finalists were the Mazda3, Peugeot 208, as well as the Porsche Taycan. The winner was hence voted past times an international jury panel comprising 86 automotive journalists from 24 countries some the world.