Ford is prodigious winner in What Car? Awards 2013

In the What Car? Awards 2013 results announced this week; Ford has cemented their position as the UK's favourite vehicle manufacturer. Ford has taken top spot in four different What Car? award categories, more than in previous years and more than any other auto maker in contention.

According to the latest industry figures, Ford has sold the most cars in the UK for 36 consecutive years and been top commercial vehicle brand for 47 years. That is truly a remarkable accomplishment. As for the What Car? awards they took home, the Ford Mondeo won Best Family Car and Best Estate awards for the third year running. The ever popular Ford Fiesta (the best-selling model of 2012 per SMMT data) was awarded Best Supermini and rounding out the quadruple hat trick of accolades was the Best Hot Hatch winner, the sporty Ford Focus ST.

Chas Hallett, What Car? editor-in-chief, said: “Ford really deserves its four What Car? category awards, it’s a fantastic achievement. It’s great to see a mainstream volume car maker building award-winning cars.”

Mark Ovenden, Ford Britain managing director, said: “Ford’s flying start to 2013 has been accelerated by winning so many What Car? Awards. Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo are the most familiar models in Ford’s line-up, so What Car? recognising each of them is a fine testimony to our latest range.”

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