Here are nine of the strangest motoring awards you've probably never heard of

Presented by Parking Review magazine, the British Parking Awards “recognise the leading examples of car park management, enforcement, design and teamwork”. The 2024 award for Best New Car Park went to... Blackpool Central multistorey.

At the 2024 Forecourt Trader Awards, MFG St Clears service station in Carmarthenshire took the top gong as the UK’s Forecourt Trader of the Year. Come on now, don’t try and tell yourself you haven’t got a favourite fuel station.

Brought to you by the folks behind the 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race, this aims to lower the tone of the stuffy Monterey Car Week. Worst of Show in 2024 went to a brown, fur covered Lincoln with a horse mannequin on the roof.

Every year, responses to Zapmap’s annual EV charging survey are used to create a league table of charging networks across the UK. In 2024 the ‘large’ networks table was topped by Tesla for the first time.

The Caravan Club’s Towcar of the Year competition put 28 contenders to the test in 2024, with the Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid coming out as the overall champion having already triumphed in the hotly contested ‘Caravan weight over 1,700kg’ category.

The competition concludes with a National Final during which competitors must pretend they work for the fictitious Middle Walk Bus Company. They then simulate a normal day and complete a theory test, before the winner is announced at a gala dinner.

The Bodyshop Awards 2024 crowned “the best and brightest in the UK accident repair industry” with separate awards for small, medium and large bodyshops, plus a number of gongs for technicians and apprentices.

An award so prestigious the announcement of the 2024 winner made national news. Both BBC News and the Daily Mail reported on Swindon’s bonkers Magic Roundabout being crowned by the UK Roundabout Appreciation Society.

The one they all want to win. The overall winner at the Loo of the Year Awards is presented with the ‘Golden Loo Seat Trophy’. There was a motoring triumph at the 2023 awards, with campsite and caravan park Hillcroft Park taking the top gong.