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Performance COTY

MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: Eight contenders revealed

These are the eight heavy-hitting performance cars vying for the PCOTY title

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MOTOR's Sports Car of the Year 2022: 10 contenders revealed

The 10 best driver’s cars under $100k vying for MOTOR’s inaugural new performance competition

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MOTOR's Performance Car of the Year is changing for 2022

This year sees PCOTY go large with a new award for more accessible cars

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Gallery: Highball Cars & Coffee #6

Melbourne’s car cognoscenti turn out in droves for Highball Cars & Coffee #6

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2021 Toyota GR Yaris unleashed on the MOTOR Shootout

It’s the car of the moment, but how does Toyota’s star athlete handle the track?

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2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S takes on the MOTOR Shootout

Can the quickest car we’ve ever timed in a straight line also make an impression on track? We strap Karl Reindler into the hot seat to find out

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Performance Car of the Year 2021: the track test

Records are demolished in the fastest and most powerful PCOTY field ever

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Performance Car of the Year 2021: the road test

The Victorian high country provides the 2021 PCOTY field with the perfect real-world test

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All the crazy numbers from Performance Car of the Year 2021

PCOTY returns landmark numbers, geek out on all of it here

2021 MOTOR PCOTY 4th place Ford Fiesta ST
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Ford Fiesta ST bounds into 4th at MOTOR's 2021 PCOTY

Baby hot hatch grows into a giant killer

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Porsche Cayman GTS 4.0 finishes 5th at PCOTY 2021

Dynamic brilliance hampered by long-legged ’box

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Behind the scenes at MOTOR Performance Car of the Year 2021

Kirby gets his first PCOTY invite and spends the week wrangling walkie talkies. Cruel. We also made him keep notes

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Audi R8 V10 Performance sings into 6th place at MOTOR's 2021 PCOTY

Tried and true recipe delivers 10-cylinder main course

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BMW's M550i xDrive glides into 7th place at MOTOR's 2021 PCOTY

M5 Competition's understudy makes the grade

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Toyota GR Yaris finishes 8th at MOTOR's 2021 PCOTY

We so badly wanted to believe...

2021 MOTOR PCOTY 9th place Audi RS6 Avant
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Audi's RS6 wonder wagon finishes 9th at MOTOR's 2021 PCOTY

Uber wagon shines in the real world, not on track

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578kW Herrod SM17 Mustang makes for one ballistic PCOTY 10th place finisher

Power-packed pony is a bittersweet symphony

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Here’s how close AMG came to winning PCOTY previously

This might be AMG’s first PCOTY victory, but the brand has a strong history in Australia’s fastest motoring award

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Mercedes-AMG A45 S rounds out 2021 MOTOR PCOTY podium

Affalterbach redefines the hot hatch genre

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The Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro is the fastest production car to lap Winton

There is a new leader on the MOTOR Shootout leader board and a new production car lap record for Winton Raceway

2021 MOTOR PCOTY 2nd place Porsche 911 Turbo S
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2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S comes second at MOTOR's 2021 PCOTY

Technically brilliant, but is there a spark missing?

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Why the Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro won PCOTY

Or why Porsche didn’t win yet again

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2021 Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro wins MOTOR 2021 Performance Car of the Year

After years of trying, Mercedes-AMG wins its first PCOTY with the incredible GT R Pro

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Every car to have ever won MOTOR's Performance Car of the Year

We look back at 25 years of PCOTY, and 25 amazing cars