The Jeep Avenger has been named European Car of The Year 2023 at the Brussels Motor Show.

In a contest dominated by EVs, Jeep’s initial electric automobile cruised residence to victory, leaving even the Volkswagen ID four and Nissan Ariya trailing in its wake. The 57 judges awarded the Avenger 328 points, whilst the second-placed ID only collected 241 points and the Ariya scraped 211 with each other.

Further down the table of seven shortlisted vehicles the Kia Niro completed fourth with 200 points, the Renault Austral came residence fifth with 163 points, Peugeot’s 408 accomplished sixth spot with 149 points and the Toyota bZ4X/Subaru Solterra twins completed dead final, scoring only 133 points.

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The competitors was initial held in 1964 when it was won by Rover’s revolutionary 2000, but with the exception of vehicles like the Rover 3500 (1977), Porsche 928 (1978) and Citroen XM (1990) the expense-conscious European judges have typically favoured reasonably priced, mainstream autos. This is not the initial time an electric automobile has been awarded the ECOTY gong, even though. The Nissan Leaf (2011), Jaguar I-Pace (2019) and Kia EV6 (2022) have all come out ahead of combustion vehicles in the final dozen years.

The jury of expert motoring journalists from across the continent is generally a 61-robust panel, but 4 Russian judges had been forced to sit out this year’s occasion in response to their country’s invasion of Ukraine. Each of the jurors has 25 points to distribute, but they have to share them amongst at least 5 vehicles and not give much more than ten points to any single car.

The Avenger is primarily based on the very same Stellantis platform as the Peugeot 2008 and Opel Mokka, and is presently only obtainable as an EV, even though a 1.two-liter, 3-cylinder combustion version will be added quickly. But becoming developed particularly with Europe in thoughts, the tiny 160.five-in (four,076 mm) SUV will not be coming to the U.S.