The Irish Examiner's best cars of 2022

Declan Colley reflects on an astonishingly innovative period in which the car industry moved quickly into an era of new technologies, most notably in the field of electric cars — the future of the automotive business

The Opel Astra is the Irish Examiner Car of the Year. Some readers might be surprised by this one because the main gong goes to the new Astra, which is – in essence – a boring family hatchback

It is entirely appropriate that on this, the final day of 2022, we here at Examiner Motoring unveil our favourite cars of the past 12 months.

This has become an endearing ritual and, of course, the prize-winners can also bask in a full year of reflected glory as they boast of having become the winner of, er, one of the industry’s most sought-after gongs.