Through all the uncertainties over the past year, one constant has been the car industry’s ability to keep on producing innovative and brilliant new machines. And although the pandemic prevented us from holding a ceremony for the second year running, we still wanted to highlight the industry’s superb achievements.

It also didn’t stop us gathering many of the star cars at Brooklands and producing in-depth features on all of our winners. So join us in celebrating their amazing successes over the next slides. We start with the very few new cars that scored a full Five Stars in our rigorous road test in the past year: