AJAC names 2017 Volkswagen Golf Alltrack Canada’s Car of 2017

The Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) has called the 2017 Volkswagen Golf Alltrack as this 2017’s Canadian Car of the Year at the 2017 Canadian International Auto Show in Toronto.

The Golf Alltrack vanquish the BMW M2 and the Hyundai Elantra, the two other finalists in the running for AJAC’s Car of the Year Award. Not leaving empty-handed, the M2– probably among the purest M vehicles in recent years– took AJAC’s Best New Premium Sports/Performance Car award.

The Elantra, freshly revamped for 2017 and Canada’s 2nd best selling car, is AJAC’s Finest Brand-new Small Car. Its performance-oriented sibling, the Elantra Sport, is AJAC’s Best Brand-new Performance Car for 2017. The Golf Alltrack’s win, on the other hand, marks the second successive year of AJAC honors for the Golf– last year, the Golf Sportwagon and Golf R were named AJAC’s Best Family Car and Best Sports/Performance Car below $50,000.

Together with the Car of the Year, AJAC named the revitalized 2017 Subaru Forester as 2017’s Utility Vehicle of the Year. The basic all-wheel-drive CUV vanquished the brand new Mercedes-Benz GLC 300 and the thoroughly revamped Chrysler Pacifica, which won AJAC’s Best New Premium Utility and Best Brand-new Large Utility Vehicle of the Year awards.