{"id":13007,"date":"2017-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/surprise-winner-takes-out-car-of-the-year-award\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"surprise-winner-takes-out-car-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/surprise-winner-takes-out-car-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Winner Takes Out Car Of The Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Skoda Kodiaq has been unveiled as the shock winner of the 2017 News Corp Car of the Year award.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"643\" width=\"1139\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/skoda-kodiaq.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe Kodiaq is the first car of the year champion from the Czech brand that once was the butt of cruel jokes about its reliability,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/innovation\/motoring\/motoring-news\/skoda-kodiaq-is-car-of-the-year\/news-story\/45260a021f16f2875345c908689f0f93\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Gover wrote for News<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe Kodiaq\u2019s victory will surprise many &#8212; it was rated a 34-1 chance with bookmaker Sportsbet &#8212; but it scored a unanimous victory in the final run-off.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIts cabin works as a comfy five-seater or occasional seven-seater and smile-inducing little touches include a built-in torch, a pair of umbrellas, iPad holders, a rubbish bin and pop-out rubber strips on the doors to prevent carpark dings.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other contenders for the top gong included the Kia Picanto, Audi Q5 SUV, Honda Civic Type-R and Kia Stinger.<\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnews.com.au%2Fposts%2F1989179014442795&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"485\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Skoda Kodiaq has been unveiled as the shock winner of the 2017 News Corp Car of the Year award. \u201cThe Kodiaq is the first car of the year champion from the Czech brand that once was the butt of cruel jokes about its reliability,\u201d Paul Gover wrote for News. \u201cThe Kodiaq\u2019s victory will surprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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