European Car of the Year the award for 1987. 19 years after the 504 gave Peugeot its first European Car of the Year, the French carmaker finally enjoyed its second triumph in the competition when its mid-range 405 saloon won the 1988 award by a wide margin. A year later, Fiat became the first manufacturer to win the award five times when its ground-breaking new Tipo achieved victory. Citroen's new XM flagship model won the award for 1990, with its French rival Renault scoring success a year later with the new Clio supermini, which signalled the end for the iconic R5. With the award now
Wheels Car of the Year have been the 2015 COTY winner is instead be the winner for 2016 and so forth. To date, in chronological order, the award winners (by name including series where available) have been the following: Wheels Car of the Year "Wheels" Car of the Year (commonly abbreviated to COTY) is an annual automotive award presented by "Wheels" magazine. It is considered Australia's most prestigious automotive award, which the publisher contends, is the world's oldest continuous motoring award of its kind. The award is given to the best newly released vehicle each year. Since 1963, "Wheels" has awarded the title of Car