{"id":41290,"date":"2025-11-19T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sagmj-announces-dynamic-new-car-of-the-year-committee-for-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:41:08","slug":"sagmj-announces-dynamic-new-car-of-the-year-committee-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/sagmj-announces-dynamic-new-car-of-the-year-committee-for-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"SAGMJ Announces Dynamic New Car of the Year Committee for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1986, the South African Guild of Mobility Journalists has held the esteemed Car of the Year competition. 2026 will see the 40th iteration of the competition hosted alongside Old Mutual Insure as the title sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 running of the competition will kick off in November 2025. An enormously experienced Jury comprising 25 jurors and three trainees will score the finalists over two test days at the end of Q1 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Windell has been involved with COTY since 1986 and has an astonishing 49 years of industry experience. Collectively, our Jury boasts more than 500 years&#039; experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Jury has a fantastic spread of experience, including influencers, writers, and broadcasters. The wealth of knowledge spread across new energy, tech, two- or four-wheeled vehicles, economy runs, and time trials is superb &ndash; a key element in finding automotive excellence.<\/p>\n<p>The Jury in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<p>Alan Rosenmeyer<br \/>\nAzim Omar<br \/>\nBernard Hellberg Jr<br \/>\nBrendon Staniforth<br \/>\nColin&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75329&#038;page=sagmj-announces-dynamic-new-car-of-the-year-committee-for-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1986, the South African Guild of Mobility Journalists has held the esteemed Car of the Year competition. 2026 will see the 40th iteration of the competition hosted alongside Old Mutual Insure as the title sponsor. The 2026 running of the competition will kick off in November 2025. An enormously experienced Jury comprising 25 jurors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/2026%20SA%20CAR%20OF%20THE%20YEAR%20JURY.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/2026%20SA%20CAR%20OF%20THE%20YEAR%20JURY.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}