[Dailycar Design Award] Hyundai Avante is the winner among compact domestic cars

[Kim, Song-Yi] Hyundai Avante was chosen as the most beautiful car among compact domestic cars selling in Korean market.

Dailycar, Korean automobile news media, which held ‘Dailycar Design Award 2017’, announced today that Hyundai Avante is the winner among compact domestic cars selling in Korean market. Dailycar Design Award was held from May 11 to 15. Winners was selected based on the evaluation from 24 judges(70%) and votes from 1000 internet users(30%). The voting system was operated by Nice R&C, Korean research company.

Dailycar held ‘Dailycar Design Award 2017’ to celebrate its 9th anniversary. Overall, the award targeted 58 kinds of Korean cars(13 segments) and 153 of imported cars(14 segments). Based on those 211 models, Dailycar Design Award chose the most beautiful car design of the year.

As there has been no such award in global car industry, it seems to be a good challenge, since Dailycar Design Award picks the most beautiful car in every segment based solely on design.

Hyundai Avante got 35%, and therefore it was chosen as the segment winner of Dailycar Design Award 2017. Kia’s Soul got 15.1% and Chevrolet Cruz had 15.1%. There were also Kia K3(13.8%), Hyundai i30(11.8%), Hyundai Veloster(5.7%) and Renault-Samsung’s SM3(3.1%).

Avante was chosen as the winner because of its modern and sporty design as well as its simple styling.