Since today is the International Women’s Day, we’d like to give you a simple quiz. What vehicle type do you think female car owners around the world prefer these days? If you gave us the usual answers—small hatchback, for instance—you’d be wrong.

In fact, women now like crossovers (preferably midsize), and they like their cars built by South Korean automakers. That is, if the opinions of 82 female motoring journalists are accurate. For the third straight year, the overall winner of the Women’s Worldwide Car of the Year awards is a crossover made in Korea. Following the Kia Niro in 2023 and the Kia EV9 in 2024, the Hyundai Santa Fe has snagged the 2025 WWCOTY Supreme Award.

In doing so, the Santa Fe outscored five other category winners:

The Santa Fe won the top award by impressing the lady judges in safety, quality, technology, design, ease of driving, performance, comfort, efficiency, environmental impact, and value for money.

Besides the six automotive category awards, two other accolades were given. BYD received the Best Technology award (for its Blade battery technology), while Volvo got the Sandy Myhre award (presented to the car company that best exhibited a “commitment to women in the areas of workplace inclusion, product design, and advertising campaigns, among others”).

So, ladies, the next time you need help in deciding on your next vehicle, you now know which cars are popular among the females of the species.