The Golden Steering Wheel (German: Das Goldene Lenkrad) is one of the best-known German awards for new car models. It has been awarded since 1976 by the Axel Springer SE owned-tabloid BILD am Sonntag (BamS), since 2009 in cooperation with Auto Bild. The rules were tightened in 2017. For the first time, the results in everyday fuel consumption had an impact on the grading of the test cars. If the difference between the specified factory consumption and actual consumption was too large on a fixed test track, this led to the deduction of points.