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 perfect automobiles, vans, and SUVs in eight distinct classes. After a yr of reflection, a bunch of suggestions from readers and colleagues, and wheel time in a whole lot of latest autos, we’ve refined our testing method 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 car available on the market. However the work doesn’t cease when the drive ends. When the automobiles are put away within the storage, we pull out the spreadsheets.

To get as shut as potential to apples-to-apples comparisons, our score system divides the vehicular universe into some 144 micro-segments, scored on 60 or so individually weighted factors of measure, taking a look at the whole lot 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 way of automobiles to think about and automobiles to skip.

Star Awards choose up the place Star Rankings depart off. Our consideration set begins with autos which are both all-new or considerably revised over the past yr. From there, we invite the automobiles that achieved the very best scores to hitch us for Take a look at Week, deep within the California desert.

In the course of the yr we let knowledge take the lead in our score system, however the purpose of Take a look at Week is to check autos face to face – on the highway, on the observe, or within the grime because the case could also be – to see which competitor in every section stands out with unmissable worth, unimaginable know-how, and spectacular real-world habits. (There shall be spreadsheets right here as nicely, 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 one of the best of Electrical, Efficiency, Luxurious, Truck, SUV, and Worth. And, in fact, we’ll arm wrestle in regards to the coveted Editors’ Selection Award for the second yr working.

Better of all, this yr we need to convey you together with us. Every single 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 most likely 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.

Examine again at Motor1.com for updates to return asserting our preliminary lists of auto nominees, dates and occasions to hitch in on Take a look at Week, and the grand finale the place we convey you the last word Motor1.com Star Awards winners.