Winner of 'Car of the Year 2025' is first in world to have baguette holder

The fig 1 car astatine the What Car? Awards this week has an optional wicker handbasket for holding a baguette

An electrical French car, the archetypal of its benignant to diagnostic a baguette holder, has been crowned Car of the Year 2025 astatine the prestigious What Car? Awards.

The Renault 5 scooped up the apical prize astatine what's often referred to arsenic Britain's motoring Oscars. In summation to winning the main category, it besides clinched the rubric of Small Electric Car of the Year.

The Renault 5 sanction whitethorn portion up nostalgia for immoderate drivers, with the first-generation exemplary having retired successful 1985. However, this latest offering boasts a big of amusive personalisation options.

These see the optional wicker handbasket for stowing a baguette, which is fixed to the broadside of the centre console - a cheeky motion to its French heritage. It besides features 3D printed indicators, exterior and interior stickers, and retention compartments.

"We're delighted to person won the Car of the Year award," expressed Adam Wood, Managing Director astatine the motoring brand, adding that "even much peculiar this twelvemonth is the information it's a highly accessible electrical car."

"The absorption to the retro-futuristic plan has been incredible, there's truthful overmuch passionateness for the car, and this latest exemplary is cleanable for the modern world," helium continued.

Reportedly 1 of the astir affordable EVs successful the UK, the car is priced from £22,995 and offers up to 248 miles of range.

Speaking astir the array of personalisation options, Adam said: "We haven't forgotten that owners request an affectional transportation with their car.

"We're arrogant of our origins, and if a baguette isn't your thing, determination are a fewer different nods to French practice astir the car." The conveyance showcases its French roots with emblem motifs connected the seats and the iconic Gallic rooster awesome subtly integrated into the headlights.

Steve Huntingford, Editor of What Car?, praised the winner, stating: "Renault has intelligibly thrown everything astatine the car, resulting successful thing that's comfortable, bully to drive, precise good priced, and equipped with an infotainment strategy that shames those successful immoderate acold much costly machines."