Mercedes S-Class: Women’s World Car of the Year 2015

The Mercedes S-Class has been declared the 2015 winner of the Women’s World Car of the Year Award and Luxury Car of the Year too.

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The Women’s Car of the Year Award kicked off in 2009 after New Zealand car scribe Sandy Myhre decided a woman’s voice was needed in the male-dominated world of petrolheads.

That year, the Jaguar XF won the gong, and in subsequent years we’ve seen the Range Rover Evoque, Citroen DS3 and Audi A3 step on to the winner’s podium. But the winner for 2015 is the Mercedes S-Class.

As we’ve said in previous years, the Women’s COTY award is interesting, but proves that even with a female perspective – and additional considerations like ‘Wow’ and sex appeal coming in to the judging – a good car is still a good car.

In other categories, it was the Mercedes S-Class again as Luxury COTY (pipping the Audi A8 and Tesla Model S to the post), Family Car was the Audi A3, Sports Car the Aud S3, Economy Car the Honda Jazz, Green Car the Tesla Model X and the SUV of the year the Range Rover Sport.

Sue Baker, UK judge of WWCOTY, said:

This is an outstanding accolade for a car which encompasses everything women want in a vehicle, namely a high calibre driving experience, impeccable safety credentials, top-notch comfort and high build quality, all at a justifiable price.

Mercedes-Benz should be proud of its achievement in winning the Women’s World Car of the Year with the S-Class, because it is very hard to get onto the short-list and win a category, let alone the supreme trophy

And just for a bit of fun, the 21 judges (from 16 countries) were asked to nominate their dream car, and the winner was the Jaguar F-Type Coupe.

As we said, women’s taste in cars isn’t exactly the polar opposite to the male perspective.