{"id":7139,"date":"2013-11-21T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2013-11-22T11:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T11:25:32","slug":"c4-picasso-continental-irish-car-year-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/c4-picasso-continental-irish-car-year-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"C4 Picasso is the Continental Irish  Car of the Year 2014!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7140\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4987.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7140\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7140\" alt=\"Citroen C4 Picasso is 2014 Irish Car of the Year\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4987.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4987.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4987-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Citroen C4 Picasso is 2014 Irish Car of the Year<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b><i>The Citroen C4 Picasso has been announced as the Continental Irish Car of the Year 2014.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Citroen C4 Picasso received 377 votes from the Irish Motoring Writers Association (IMWA) jurors, ahead of the VW Golf (364 votes) and the Mazda6 (327 votes). It is the third time that Citroen has taken the overall Continental Irish Car of the Year title, after the Citroen Xsara (1998) and the Citroen C5 (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Members of the IMWA awarded their votes on the basis of key criteria including safety, equipment level, fuel economy, comfort, practicality, ride and road-holding.<\/p>\n<p>The trophy was presented to Frederic Soulier, Managing Director of Citroen Ireland, by Tom Dennigan of Continental Tyres Ireland, who commented: \u201cThe Citroen C4 Picasso is an outstanding car and a worthy winner of our main award. It combines excellent driving qualities with a range of truly impressive technologies, and is a credit to everyone connected with Citroen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the overall award, five other category winners were also announced:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Continental Irish Small Car of the Year \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/peugeot-2008-versus-renault-captur\/\">Peugeot 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Continental Irish Compact Family Car of the Year\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/first-drive-citroen-c4-picasso\/\">Citroen C4 Picasso<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Continental Irish Family Car of the Year \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/mazda-6-sport-se-saloon-2-2d-150ps\/\">Mazda6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Continental Irish Executive \/ Luxury Car of the Year \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Range Rover<\/p>\n<p><b>Continental Irish Performance Car of the Year\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/volkswagen-golf-gti-2-0-tsi\/\">Volkswagen Golf GTI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geraldine Herbert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>21st November, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Citroen C4 Picasso has been announced as the Continental Irish Car of the Year 2014. The Citroen C4 Picasso received 377 votes from the Irish Motoring Writers Association (IMWA) jurors, ahead of the VW Golf (364 votes) and the Mazda6 (327 votes). It is the third time that Citroen has taken the overall Continental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,77],"tags":[440,827,503],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>C4 Picasso is the Continental Irish Car of the Year 2014! - wheelsforwomen.ie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citroen C4 Picasso is 2014 Irish Car of the Year\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wheelsforwomen.ie\/index.php\/c4-picasso-continental-irish-car-year-2014\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"C4 Picasso is the Continental Irish Car of the Year 2014! 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