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“World Performance Car of the Year” is a category within the World Car Awards, where a global jury of motoring journalists crowns the year’s most thrilling road-legal rocket.

Judging looks at acceleration, handling, braking, usability, innovation, and value—because being fast is great, but being fast and not dreadful is better.

The finalists are test-driven on multiple continents and the winner is typically announced at the New York International Auto Show, amid much tyre-smoke metaphor and polite applause.

If you want a cheat sheet: it’s not the cheapest, not the softest, but the car that makes grown adults grin like kids after a double espresso.