The multi-award winning Skoda Yeti Crossover has done it again, taking the coveted ‘Car of the Year’ title at the first ever Honest John awards.

The popular and fuel-efficient model initially won the top honour in the Crossover category to make it eligible for the big prize… and then walked off with that, too.

The Honest John awards are different to other honours because they’re not voted for by a panel of judges. Instead they come from the best experts of all – the website users. The awards recognise and reward the cars that visitors search for most on the site. Put simply, the road test reports which create the most interest among honestjohn.co.uk users are the winners.

Daniel Harrison, Editor of honestjohn.co.uk, said the Skoda Yeti was a car that had captured the imagination of the website’s users.

He commented: “The Skoda Yeti is a smash hit, attracting more interest over the past year than any other car. Current owners won't be surprised; they tell us they find it practical, solidly built, well equipped and hatchback-like in the way it drives.”

Daniel added: “Interest in the Yeti is at an all-time high, which is particularly impressive when you consider it’s up against some strong competition, in both the Crossover and Car of the Year categories.”

The data to measure this is taken from Google Analytics. The honestjohn.co.uk site gets around 1.4 million visits every month, with the majority of users reading road tests in the car-by-car review section.

Robert Hazelwood was thrilled to be the first winner of Honest John’s Car of the Year, particularly because of how it’s judged. “The Yeti has clearly brought the Skoda philosophy of engineering excellence, value for money and outstanding customer service to the Crossover sector, and we’re delighted that car buyers are responding to that.”

Showing that honestjohn.co.uk users have impeccable taste when it comes to searching in the Small Family Car and Large Family Car categories, the Skoda Octavia and Skoda Superb Estate were both shortlisted.

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This was also mentioned on this Youtube video:

Good to see what the new Tiguan will look like to.

Is this the same 'Honest John' as featured in the Daily Telegraph?

Now perhaps he'll recommend the Yeti more frequently rather than Kias and Hyundais

Is this the same 'Honest John' as featured in the Daily Telegraph?

Now perhaps he'll recommend the Yeti more frequently rather than Kias and Hyundais

Yup it is, the guy with the hat!

I find his website very useful, particularly the legal advice and also car to car advice.

He actually recommends the Yeti frequently on the website. Whilst he raves about the 1.8 TSI (and sometimes the 1.2 TSI), he is less keen on the diesel models, citing DPF and DMF problems (he is actually less keen on all diesels, apart from the Fiesta (solid flywheel) and the Koreans (no DPF)). He is actually quite critical of the 1.6 TDI and the DSG combination in the Golf.

Edited 1 June, 201115 yr by My_Yeti

As an occassional visitor to the HJ website, I would be of the opinion that he is a wee bit biased agin VW, diesels, DMF's, DSG's.

& yes very pro Hyuandi/Kia. and petrol engins, hawk & spit.

HJ has repeatedly praised Ford's "Powershift" in preference to VW's DSG.

Who knows he may even be right.

just a thought

M

I am also an occasional visitor to the Honest John page and find it pretty informative. It is very good for providing details of any issues that particular cars suffer from and what to look out for etc.

It was an impressive statistic to see that the Yeti is the most searched for car on a site that has 1.4 million visitors a month.

I love the Yeti review video he does where he pulls up at lights....

Says "Traffic light grand-prix"

Then proceeds to test the 0-60 time

I think the Yeti in the HJ review is the same one used on Top Gear.

Andy