Download the TOTM winner badge
If you won a TOTM, you can use the badge. Download the files here; you don’t need to ask anyone first. Each badge carries a web address where anyone who sees it can check what it was awarded for.
The dark badge is for light backgrounds; the light badge is for dark ones.
Or only the dark badge:
The ZIP file has both versions of the badge in SVG and PNG, and the rules for using it. Files are named totm-2026-car-of-the-year-{variant}.{ext}. For print files with outlined type, ask the ACKO Drive design team.
The badge is drawn from the trophy
The badge carries the TOTM trophy and the TOTM mark, drawn flat for print and screens.
Badges are available for the 2026 TOTMs onwards. The logo and the trophies were different before that, so earlier winners don’t have a badge to download.
How to check a badge is real
Every TOTM badge carries a web address in the form ackodrive.com/awards/{edition}/{category}. Open it to see the winner, the runner-up, the jury that decided it and the criteria it was judged on. If the address doesn’t open a TOTM result, the badge is not genuine.
Viewers’ Choice badges say “Viewers’ Choice” on them. A public vote is not a jury decision, and the badge cannot be used as if it were.
Press kit for journalists
Key facts about the TOTMs
- Founded
- 2023
- Editions held
- 4
- Juries
- Three: cars, bikes and communications
- Jury members
- 30
- Criteria
- Performance, Handling, Comfort, Technology, Safety, Value for money
- Testing venue
- Buddh International Circuit
- Knowledge Partner
- Grant Thornton Bharat
- Ranking
- 5th among automotive awards in Asia and Africa, up from 18th in three years (AITASTIC annual report)
- Next ceremony
- 16 December 2026, JW Marriott Bengaluru Prestige Golfshire Resort & Spa
Press coverage of each edition
Every story written about each edition, with links to the originals. See the coverage of the 2026 TOTMs.
How to cite a result
Link to the result itself, not to a press release. Results keep the same address and show the jury and the criteria alongside the winner.
Being added to the record
Logo pack (TOTM wordmark, trophy render, ACKO Drive lockup), a selection of cleared photography per edition, and the jury headshot set — to be supplied by the awards team and served from here as a single download.
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