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Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX
Award-Winning Vehicle Technology & Design
WardsAuto editors select the Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX list after evaluating vehicles with new or heavily redesigned interiors and user-experience technology. Judges experience and evaluate the vehicles during their daily driving.
Nominated vehicles are evaluated on a variety of aspects that shape the user’s experience inside the vehicle including aesthetics and design of the interior, material quality, fit and finish, connectivity infotainment options, comfort and usability of controls and features, instrument-panel design, Information delivery and ease of operation, availability and performance of driver-assistance features, as well as overall value.
Winning vehicles will be on display throughout the exhibition hall for attendees to jump in and experience the interior and technology which landed each vehicle a spot on the 2025 Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX list. Winners to be announced April 2025.
The 2025 Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX winners will be honored during a special ceremony and luncheon on June 5 at AutoTech 2025.
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Meet the Wards 10 Best Judges
Bob Gritzinger
Editor-in-Chief, WardsAuto
Bob Gritzinger has 25 years of experience as an automotive journalist, covering important product and technology announcements near his Detroit, MI base and around the world. Bob has been a Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX and a Wards 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems judge since joining the company in 2015 and now manages the evaluation program as part of his duties as WardsAuto Editor-in-Chief.
Christie Schweinsberg
Principal Analyst, Wards Intelligence
Christie Schweinsberg is one of the more eco-minded of our judges and a big fan of electrification and alternative propulsion. She has been a Wards 10 Best judge for the past fifteen years or so. When she’s not testing driving vehicles with the latest engines and propulsion systems or luxurious and innovative interiors and technology, Christie is a principal analyst for Wards Intelligence covering the topics of charging and digital economy.
Drew Winter
Contributing Editor, WardsAuto
Drew Winter is a contributing editor for WardsAuto and has been following mobility technology topics for more than 30 years. First as an award-winning automotive journalist and then as a producer of the WardsAuto Interiors and User Experience conferences. He evaluates dozens of vehicles every year as a judge for the Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX and Wards 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems, in addition to being a long-time juror for the North American Car, Truck and Utility of the Year awards.
Dave Zoia
Contributing Editor, WardsAuto
Dave Zoia has been following and writing about the auto industry for our four decades and was a judge on the inaugural Wards 10 Best Engines awards in 1995. He has held several positions at Wards over that time, including Editorial Director and Director of its Wards Intelligence research operations. Dave continues today as a Wards contributor, writing on a wide range of topics, including emerging technologies, evolving business strategies and the relationships between the two.
Jim Irwin
Editor, WardsAuto
Jim Irwin has been a Wards 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems judge and a Wards 10 Best Interiors & UX judge since joining WardsAuto in 2011. As WardsAuto’s web and newsletter editor, he has the privilege of reading virtually every powertrain and technology story written by staffers and correspondents. He lives in Detroit with his wife and fellow automotive journalist, Tanya Gazdik.
David Kiley
Senior Editor, WardsAuto
David Kiley is senior editor at WardsAuto and host of the award-winning WardsAuto Podcast. David is also the author of award-winning books and Volkswagen of America and BMW and has a book on The First 50+ Years of Subaru in America coming in 2025. He is a former editor at USA Today, Businessweek, Autoblog and Adweek, and a two-time winner of the International Motor Press Association’s annual “Best in Auto Journalism” awards, including one for the WardsAuto Podcast.