Get Prepared For The 2022 Motor1.com Star Awards

Within the fall of 2021, we debuted the first-ever Motor1.com Star Awards program, handing out {hardware} to the easiest vehicles, vehicles, and SUVs in eight distinct classes. After a yr of reflection, a bunch of suggestions from readers and colleagues, and wheel time in tons of of latest autos, we’ve refined our testing formulation and reracked for 2022 with our star sponsor the E-Vary EV Tires.

All year long, Motor1.com and InsideEVs editors consider just about each newly launched automobile in the marketplace. However the work doesn’t cease when the drive ends. When the vehicles are put away within the storage, we pull out the spreadsheets.

To get as shut as doable to apples-to-apples comparisons, our ranking system divides the vehicular universe into some 144 micro-segments, scored on 60 or so individually weighted factors of measure, all the things from design and security to efficiency and luxury. The online result’s our Star Score, a rating of 1-10 that lets you kind by means of vehicles to think about and vehicles to skip.

Star Awards choose up the place Star Rankings go away off. Our consideration set begins with autos which are both all-new or considerably revised during the last yr. From there, we invite the vehicles that achieved the very best scores to hitch us for Check Week, deep within the California desert.

Throughout the yr we let knowledge take the lead in our ranking system, however the aim of Check Week is to match autos face to face – on the street, on the monitor, or within the filth because the case could also be – to see which competitor in every phase stands out with unmissable worth, unimaginable know-how, and spectacular real-world habits. (There will probably be spreadsheets right here as effectively, however they’re a lot much less thrilling to speak about.)

For 2022 we’ve streamlined our classes however deepened the sphere of autos in every. We’ll hand out accolades for the very best of Electrical, Efficiency, Luxurious, Truck, SUV, and Worth. And, after all, we’ll arm wrestle concerning the coveted Editors’ Selection Award for the second yr operating.

Better of all, this yr we need to carry you together with us. Day by day we’ll be broadcasting stay from Star Awards HQ, recapping the day and teasing which autos may be closing in on victory. There’ll in all probability be some hard-earned cocktails, too, if the attorneys allow us to. Plan to hitch the enjoyable by way of YouTube, Fb, and/or Twitter, the place we’ll reply to your questions, stay.

Test again at Motor1.com for updates to return saying our preliminary lists of auto nominees, dates and occasions to hitch in on Check Week, and the grand finale the place we carry you the final word Motor1.com Star Awards winners.