New Car Awards 2025: the winners - pictures

The best new cars on sale in 2025 are right here. These are the winners of the 2025 New Car Awards…

The Skoda Elroq is as close to faultless as a family car can be, and that’s why it’s a deserving winner of our 2025 Car of the Year Award

Above all else, it’s the Kia Picanto’s ability to feel so grown up on the open road that led it to victory

The Grande Panda is everything a great little car should be. It’s practical, sensible, comfortable, cheeky, fun and well priced

Combining comfort, space, efficiency and thoughtful design, the Skoda Octavia remains the benchmark in its class

In something of a rarity for modern cars, you can have your Skoda Superb Estate in petrol, diesel or plug-in hybrid form

The Kia EV3 is another winner, thanks to its mix of long-range electric efficiency, thoughtful practicality and good running costs

Pick almost any metric – whether it be performance, range or charging speeds – and the Tesla Model 3 comes out at the top of its class

A sumptuous ride, composed and responsive handling, and accurate steering filter down to every Audi A6 e-tron

Where else can you get this much style, space and class-leading infotainment from less than £27,000?

Prices for this roomy, comfortable and smartly finished family SUV start from just over £31,000, making this a staggering amount of car for the cash

Throw in an extensive kit list and, of course, Skoda’s ‘Simply Clever’ additions, and the Kodiaq is a worthy winner of this award

Of course, being a Volvo, it’s packed with loads of standard safety kit, and Euro NCAP ranked it one of the very safest in its class

Thanks to class-leading tech, superb interior and boot space, keen handling and a composed ride, finding flaws can be a very tricky business

BMW's flagship electric SUV has become even better, so it can triumph over the competition and take home the silverware in a new category

Even with the hybrid moniker and its 30-odd miles of electric range, the V8 is more charismatic than the W12 ever was

If this turns out to be the last petrol-powered hot hatch to win this category, it’s one hell of a sign off. Bravo, Honda

If you’re a BMW fan who yearns for a modern take on its previous icons, then our Coupé of the Year is just the car for you

The Mazda MX-5 has truly earned its legendary status in the automotive industry over the decades, and the current iteration might just be the best of the lot

Whether it’s the cabin design, the way it drives at low speeds, or how it feels when you’re exploiting its limits, the Artura is one of the most usable supercars ever created

This highly acclaimed, joyful EV is available from under £23,000. It sounds too good to be true, yet it's very much real

However you look at it, the BMW iX is a stunningly capable electric vehicle; if money is no object, there is nothing around that can match it

The MG’s hybrid power comes mainly from its e-motor, which means most of the time it feels like an EV. We love this style of driving

Being a BMW, the plug-in hybrid 530e is as sharp and fun to drive as any model in the maker’s range

Whichever version you choose, on-road manners are great, and they’re backed up by the knowledge that rough terrain won’t be too much of an obstacle when the need to head off road arises

The Ford Transit Custom sets the standard by which all other medium-sized panel vans must be judged

The updated Citroen Berlingo, Fiat Doblo, Peugeot Partner and Vauxhall Combo are all so good that it seemed unfair to single out any one specific model

Renault’s large van really is Master by name, Master by nature - combining great versatility with a new driver-centric cabin

The all-new Renault Master E-Tech is the first of a number of models that are on the way, and it shows plenty of promise for what’s to come

It’s not often a premium car does well in our Driver Power survey, but in this case the GLE has fulfilled buyers’ expectations commendably

Subaru may not sell cars in the same quantities as other manufacturers, but the brand is still a hit with owners