Country: Luxembourg
Country: Lithuania
Name: Gerhard Kuntschik, President of the Jury Country: Austria Capital: Vienna Population: 9,097,759 Auto Park: 240.000 new registrations (2021)
Country: Belgium Population: 11 832 049
Name: Ilia Seliktar, Honorary President of the Jury and Co-Founder member of the board Country: Bulgaria Capital: Sofia Population: 6,856,602 Auto Park: 2.5 million, year import and registration of new cars - 35 000, second hand - 250 000. Name: Leonid Seliktar Country: Bulgaria Capital: Sofia Population: 6,856,602 Auto Park: 350,000 new vehicles.
Name: Ozren Adamović Country: Croatia Capital: Zagreb Population: 3,88 million Auto Park: 1,968,370
Name: Petros Soutzis, Co-founder & Vice President of the jury Country: Cyprus Capital: Nicosia Population: 1,141,166 Auto Park: 900,000
Name: Vladimir Rybecky Country: Czech Republic Capital: Prague Population: 10 515 669 Auto Park: 6 293 125 registered cars (average age 15,58), 610 405 registered light commercial vehicles, 186 905 registered trucks, 20 489 registered buses (end of the year 2021). Registrations in 2021: 206 876 new cars, 19 660 new LCVs, 8 679 new trucks, 1 367 buses. Car production in 2021: cars 1 105 223, trucks 1 262, buses 4 947.
Name: Mikkel Thomsager Country: Denmark Capital: Copenhagen Population: 5,700,000 Auto Park: 2,278,000
Country: Finland
Country: France
Name: Ioannis Stavropoulos Country: Greece Capital: Athens Population: 10,815,197 Auto Park: 5.200.000 cars, exclude taxi (is about 34.000) LCV and HCV
Name: Igor Stuifzand Country: Holland Capital: Amsterdam Population: 17,5 million Auto Park: 9 million of which 400.000 BEV and 145.000 PHEV
Name: Gábor Szécsényi Country: Hungary Capital: Budapesta Population: 9,617,512 Auto Park: 4,000,000
Name: Achim Stahn Country: Germany Capital: Berlin Population: 83,000,000 Auto Park: 47,700,000
Name: Dave Humphreys Country: Ireland Capital: Dublin Population: 6,378,000 Auto Park: 2,515,322
Name: Alessio Viola Country: Italy Capital: Rome Population: 60,795,612 Auto Park: 36,900,000
Name: Krumislav Barzov Country: Macedonia Capital: Skopje Population: 2,058,539 Auto Park: 400,000
Name: Anthony Alfred Darmanin Country: Malta Capital: Valletta Population: 425,000 Auto Park: 410,000 Registered vehicles, approx. 10,000 new vehicles registered each year
Name: David Andersen Country: Norway Capital: Oslo Population: 5,136,700 Auto Park: 3 milion
Name: Szczepan Mroczek Country: Poland Capital: Warsaw Population: 37,773,915 Auto Park: 25,000,000
Name: José Caetano Country: Portugal Capital: Lisbon Population: 10,347,892 Auto Park: 4,480,000
Name: Dan Vardie, Founder & Chairman Country: Romania Capital: Bucharest Population: 19,237,691 Auto Park: 8,9 millions
Name: Suspended – Petr Menshikh Country: Russia Capital: Moscow Population: 143,975,923
Name: Mladen Alvirović Country: Serbia Capital: Belgrad Population: 7,209,764 Auto Park: 2,200,000
Name: Rudolf Karpat, Co-founder Country: Slovakia Capital: Bratislava Population: 5,415,949 Auto Park: 2,725,538 Name: Michal Karpat Country: Slovakia Capital: Bratislava Population: 5,5 milion Auto Park: 3,436.018 cars and LCV registered , 2021 sales: 75.700 cars and LCV
Country: Slovenia
Name: Alex Adalid Country: Spain Capital: Madrid Population: 46,786,605 Auto Park: 29.9 million vehicles
Name: Marcus Berggren Country: Sweden Capital: Stockholm
Name: Markus Rutishauser Country: Switzerland Capital: Bern Population: 8,306,200 Auto Park: 4,503,339
Name: Okan Altan Country: Turkey Capital: Ankara Population: 85 million Auto Park: 25,385,084 (End of 2022, February)
Name: Richard Aucock Country: United Kingdom Capital: London Population: 64,511,000 Auto Park: 37,000,000
Name: Oleg Vasylevskyi Country: Ukraine Capital: Kiev Population: 42,031,000 Auto Park: 10,950,000 cars and commercial vehicles

Alex Adalid Spain

Personal Information

10.09.1975, Valencia

Country Represented

Population: 46,464,053.

Member of Autobest Jury

since 2025

Car Park

29.9 million vehicles

Spain is one of the biggest car markets in Western Europe with sales about one million units yearly. All the European, Asian and American brands are represented in the market, most of it the based in Madrid and others in Barcelona. Spain is also the second manufacturer in Western Europe after Germany with plants from General Motors, PSA, Renault, Nissan, Volkswagen Group (SEAT and Volkswagen), Ford and a yearly production of about two million cars.

Career

Occupation

Cars editor in chief at soymotor.com

Motoring Media Career:

I began my career in 1993 as an intern at the newspaper SuperDeporte and the magazine Coche Actual (Motorpress Ibérica). Later, I became part of the teams at Car and Driver (Hearst), Car Magazine España, and Spain’s oldest newspaper, Las Provincias (Vocento Group). Throughout my career, I’ve also collaborated in television and radio programs focused on cars and mobility, and I have built a strong following across social media platforms.
Since 2024, I’ve served as Head of the Cars section at SoyMotor.com, a leading digital media outlet with over 1.3 million followers on social networks and a benchmark in automotive journalism in Spain.

RECENT ACTIVITIES:

Recognized for my broad experience and analytical vision, I’m considered one of Spain’s leading journalists in electric mobility.

Statement

Ever since I was a child —and probably because my father worked at the Ford factory in Valencia my dream has been to become an automotive journalist. That’s why being part of the AutoBest jury is one of the most important and meaningful achievements of my career.