Ellen Dewar

Ellen has been snapping cars for more than 25 years, and is the head of Wheels Media's photography department.

COTY

Hyundai Palisade takes 5th in Wheels Car of the Year

Eight-seater SUV makes its case on value, packaging and road manners

Performance COTY

Innovative tech is buried inside Hyundai’s i20 N powertrain

Baby N gains next-generation Continuously Variable Valve Duration system that adds grunt and aids efficiency

Performance COTY

Using facts and figures to explain the BMW 128ti’s strengths and weaknesses

Delving into the Sports Car of the Year data offers up interesting answers

COTY

Volkswagen Golf places 4th in 2022 Wheels Car of the Year

Enduring hatch provides internal-combustion Proof of Life as elsewhere VW embraces the electrification age

COTY

The weigh-in: the 2022 Car of the Year contenders on the scales

Each car at COTY must cross the weighbridge... data ensues

COTY

Mercedes-Benz C-Class takes 3rd place in Wheels Car of the Year 2022

Compact three-pointed star advances to the pointy end

Performance COTY

How the Volkswagen Golf GTI’s pace shocked everybody at SCOTY 2022

Venerable hot hatch proves faster than performance icons of the past

COTY

The fastest cars at Wheels Car of the Year 2022

It’s not all about speed at COTY, but a bit of punch certainly doesn’t hurt a contender’s chances

COTY

Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the Wheels Car of the Year 2022 runner-up

Boldly designed EV shares the winner’s platform, and just about all of its excellence – except for chassis tune

Performance COTY

Experience MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022 through the camera lens

MOTOR’s talented photography team smashed PCOTY 2022 out of the park – here are our favourite shots

COTY

The Kia EV6 is the 2022 Wheels Car of the Year

Our COTY 2022 winner is a landmark model that stands as the exclamation point in its brand’s coming-of-age story

COTY

Wheels Car of the Year 2022 test loop explained

Wheels heads back to the AARC once again to put 21 cars through the wringer

Performance COTY

Is the Jaguar F-Type’s old V6 really just a V8 with two cylinders blanked?

We uncover whether the dearly departed AJ126 engine is just a cut-down supercharged Jaguar V8

Performance COTY

The tricky diff that helps the Ford Focus ST fight torque steer

Ford’s hot hatch hero uses a clever diff that stops wheelspin and torque steer before it even occurs

COTY

Meet the judges of Wheels Car of the Year 2022

Meet the six experts who put out COTY contenders to the test

COTY

The Criteria for Car of the Year 2022 explained

Our judges viewed the COTY field with these five points in mind

Performance COTY

Behind the scenes of Performance Car of the Year 2022

Hail, a cracked windscreen, a software update and Omicron... Nothing gets in the way of Performance Car of the Year

Performance COTY

This neat suspension trick allows the Skoda Octavia RS to be a comfortable family car and surprising track weapon

The Czech wagon has a suspension system that you can really geek out on

COTY

Wheels Car of the Year 2022: The Contenders

Who made the cut in our hunt for the best new car on sale?

Performance COTY

MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: the track test

One of the best race tracks in the world and a field bursting with talent – game on

Performance COTY

MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022: the road test

With split awards for 2022, this year’s PCOTY road testing demanded some special treatment

Performance COTY

Video: MOTOR Performance Car of the Year 2022 winner revealed

And the winner of MOTOR’s Performance Car of the Year 2022 title is…

Performance COTY

There’s more to the Porsche Taycan Turbo S than raw numbers

We dive into the electric Porsche’s mechanical gubbins to see how it makes the most of those crazy power figures

Performance COTY

How Alpina gave the BMW M3’s engine an entirely new character

The shared internals are the same, but how the BMW M3 and Alpina B3’s engine’s perform are drastically different