World Car of the Year 2014 – the contenders

The provisional list of entries for the 2014 World Car of the Year awards has been revealed – this is like the European Car of the Year awards, only judged on a global scale. Each candidate for the main awards must be available for sale on at least two continents.

In addition to the main category, the World Car – or WCOTY – awards also includes separate prizes for the World Car Design of the Year, World Green Car and World Luxury Car, the last a change from the World Performance Car of previous years.

MSN Cars’ very own Peter Burgess is a WCOTY judge, and here he’s picked a selection of his major contenders in each classification, alongside which we’ve included the full list. This is only provisional at this stage, so more contenders may yet be added – can you think of anything the categories may be missing?

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By CJ Hubbard, contributor, MSN Cars