Wards Daily Edition

Special Edition: 2025 Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX Award Winners


	MAY 23, 2025

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:

Ambient lighting. Head-up displays. Stylish seating surfaces. Reconfigurable center consoles. Today's vehicles are filled with a slew of features and technologies that can be overwhelming for the consumer to gauge against the competitive set.

So once again the Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX judges have crawled all over cabins and dove deep into infotainment system menus to craft a list of what we believe are the vehicles possessing the best designed and most comfortable interiors, and most user-friendly features and technologies, for 2025.

The stories and podcast in this special edition of the WardsAuto Daily Edition newsletter give insight into key trends and common threads that made this year's winners rise to the top, as well as stories that profile three of our 2025 10 Best Interiors & UX winners: the Nissan Kicks, Hyundai Ioniq 9 and Cadillac Optiq.

So kick back on this long Memorial Day weekend and enjoy! WardsAuto Daily Edition will return to its regular format on Tuesday, May 27.

Christie Schweinsberg

Lead Editor

WardsAuto

Nissan Kicks: Light at the End of the Affordability Tunnel

Despite the Kicks affordable price, Nissan has managed to create a miracle in today’s automotive world: a roomy compact CUV with high-quality interior materials and loaded with premium features that make it feel special.

Hyundai Does It Again With Ioniq 9 Family Hauler

The name Ioniq evokes both electrical charge and classic architecture, and those concepts are abundant in the vibrant displays and flowing lines of the Ioniq 9’s upscale and contemporary cabin.

Cadillac Optiq: Eye Candy, and So Much More

Cadillac took some big swings with the Optiq – and didn’t miss. The all-electric CUV marks a huge departure from staid Cadillacs of old and may set the storied brand on a new design path.

Light Cabins, Bold Colors and Google Proliferation Key Trends Among 2025 Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX Winners

This year’s winning crop of vehicles has several repeat automakers and repeat brands from 2024, more mass-market than luxury vehicles, more battery-electric vehicles than last year and two models priced below $35,000.

WardsAuto Podcast: 2025 Wards 10 Best Interiors and UX Winners

Wards is out with its annual 10 Best Interiors and UX winners for 2025. WardsAuto Senior Editor David Kiley and WardsAuto Lead Editor Christie Schweinberg discuss this year's list.

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