What is the Best of 2023?
The aim here is to select the top-ten machines launched in the past year. We do this by gathering all the machines launched in the past twelve months – well, as many as we can get our hands on anyway – and test them to near destruction in order to choose the “Best of 2023.”
The top-ten consists of five four wheelers, three two wheelers, and two special awards for performance car and bike of year – these go to the fastest car and bike around our two-kilometre test track.
How do we choose the Best of 2023?
We evaluate machines on quality, comfort, ride, handling, refinement, design, drivetrain, practicality and value-for-money. Plus, we rate a vehicle’s X-Factor – that special something, je ne sais quoi if you will, that a car or bike brings to the table which just pulls at your heart strings that little bit more than the competition. In addition, a Lap Time provides a uniform method to determine all the dynamic factors of a vehicle, such as power, high-speed stability, handling, braking, etc.
Our aim is to be as transparent, objective and scientific about this as possible.
Who chooses the Best of 2023?
Our full team of experienced road testers – with half-a-century of cumulative experience in testing cars and bikes – score every vehicle on the parameters mentioned above before the final scores are averaged to ensure that no biases come into play. We also publish the points to ensure that the results are completely transparent.
Why do we conduct this test at a test track?
This story is from the November 2023 edition of autoX.
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