Announcing the EFTM Best Awards for 2020

Every year the team at EFTM get to test, review, use, play with and experience a lot of things. And each year we like to think about which ones had the greatest impact on us, left the lasting impression.

This year, as before, we’re announcing the EFTM Best Awards.

Over the next five days, we’ll announce 34 individual awards.

Broadly there are 28 category awards, across Tech, Cars and Lifestyle.

Then there are a couple of special awards like the “Blokes Best” and “Best Person” – They are awards that sit above the categories, in Blokes best it’s something that could easily have won a category award, but we reckon it’s just a bit better. Person is like TIME Person of the year – but, just a touch lower down the pecking order of honours:)

Then there are our main awards for Best Car, Best Tech and Best Lifestyle. They again are products that could easily have won a category, but go way beyond that.

And finally, our Best of the Best – this is our Gold Logie. It’s gone to amazing cars, and amazing tech in the past.

Let me be utterly clear, these are our awards, they are decided by us based on the things we tested, the cars we drove, the experiences we had. If there’s a car we didn’t drive this year, it’s not part of our consideration. Same with a phone, or a TV or whatever it might be.

Daniel, Adam and myself put together ideas for winners in categories relating to things we’d tested, and we voted – or discussed, and my Dictatorship made the final decision.

We put as much emphasis on value in many of these categories, along with innovation and smarts, as we do sheer outright performance.

So, with that, we ask you to strap in, and enjoy the next five days of announcements.

The categories are below – we’ll add links to each winner as they are announced.

Best Small Car – Kia Picanto

Best SUV – Mercedes-Benz GLC 300e

Best Small SUV – Volkswagen T-Cross

Best Appliance – Kmart Sausage Roll Maker

Best Gadget – GoCube

Best Wireless Sound – Sony WH-1000XMK4

Best Game – Microsoft Flight Simulator

Best Innovation – PS5 DualSense Controller

Best Sports Car – Audi RS6

Best Family Car – Kia Sorento

Best Ute – RAM 1500

Best Entertainment – Stan.

Best Home Theatre – Sonos

Best Tablet – Apple iPad Air

Best Security – Arlo Pro 3 Floodlight

Best Wearable – Withings ScanWatch

Best Luxury Car – Rolls Royce Ghost

Best Electric Car – Audi e-tron

Best In-Car Tech – Mercedes-Benz MBUX Augmented Reality Navigation

Best Intenet of Things – Apple HomePod Mini

Best Camera – GoPro Hero 9

Best Networking – Netgear Orbi WiFi 6

Best Telco – Telstra 5G

Best Eco-Friendly – Breville Foodcycler

Best Laptop – Apple MacBook Air (M1)

Best Gaming – Sony Playstation 5

Best TV – Chromecast with Google TV

Best Smartphone – Google Pixel 4a (5G)

Best Car – Kia Sorento GT Line

Best Person – Every Aussie in 2020

Best Lifestyle – Worx Landroid

Best Tech – Samsung Q950

Blokes Best – Harman Kardon Citation 300

Best of the Best – iPhone 12 Pro Max