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Suzuki Kenilworth in Cape Town claimed top honours for the second year running at the annual Suzuki Dealer Conference and Awards.
- Dealer News
- 27 June 2025
The Hyundai Motor Company started the year on a winning streak, announcing its win of four accolades at the 2020 Good Design awards late last year.
In the Awards’ Transport category, Hyundai’s most progressive EV concepts, namely the 45 and the Prophecy, together with the all-new Hyundai Elantra and the Hyundai Hi-Charger, were recognised for their inherent design excellence.
According to a Hyundai media statement, the Senior Vice President and Head of Hyundai Global Design Center, SangYup Lee, said Hyundai’s design vision to provide lifestyle mobility that coexists with people’s lives has been recognised through winning the awards. “Especially through our EV design, we would like to forge a strong emotional connection between humans and automobiles, giving more value to our customer’s everyday life,” Lee said.
Although the wins of the electric vehicles are concepts, both the 45 and the Prophecy also won big during 2020 at various world-renowned design competitions. This should raise expectations for Hyundai’s first dedicated EV in the new IONIQ line-up brand, which is being launched internationally later this year.
The Hyundai Hi-Charger was crowned a winner by demonstrating the brand’s commitment to offer a new charging experience to EV owners. The 350kW ultra-fast charger enables users to easily power their EVs without feeling the weight of connectors and cables. It states that the user simply chooses the position of a vehicle’s charging point on a digital screen, and a connector automatically rotates and descends to the selected point for an effortless connection.
Kia has refreshed its Sorento with some new design elements, advanced technology and outdoor-ready capability. Although the car was initially launched in 2002, the latest facelift has transformed the Sorento into a more desirable vehicle.
Following the November 2024 reveal of the Tiggo Cross, Chery South Africa is expanding its line-up with a hybrid variant that offers not only strong performance but superb fuel efficiency and driving range, says the manufacturer.
Chery South Africa is expanding its local line-up with the launch of the Tiggo 7 CSH, a new PHEV derivative of the Tiggo 7.