Car Of The Year

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Only 10 points missing for first place!

The Jury

AUSTRIA

Kurier

Kleine Zeitung

BELGIUM

Het Belang van Limburg, Bizz Magazine, De Huisarts

Auto Trends

CZECH REPUBLIC

Automobil Revue

DENMARK

Ekstra Bladet Biler

FINLAND

Tekniikan Maailma

FRANCE

LIGNESauto

Le Figaro

Le Moniteur de lAutomobile

Outsider agency

L´Automobile Magazine

La Tribune

GERMANY

MOT, Welt am Sonntag

STERN

Auto Bild, Car

Die Woche

Frankfurter Allgemeine

Süddeutsche Zeitung

GREAT BRITAIN

Autocar, What Car

The Daily Telegraph

The Sunday Times, Autocar, Motor Sport

BBC- Top Gear, The Daily Express

Car magazine

The Independent, Evo

GREECE

4-Wheels magazine

HOLLAND

De Telegraaf

Autokampioen

AutoVisie

HUNGARY

Auto Magazin, Auto Piac

Az Auto, Luxusauto Magazin

IRELAND

The Irish Times, Irish Cars

ITALY

Quattroruote

AUTO magazine

Auto oggi

Auto magazine, La Repubblica

Sport, auto & moto, La Repubblica

Leggo

NORWAY

Motor magazine

POLAND

Auto motor i sport

AutoRok, Auto Moto

PORTUGAL

AutoFoco

AutoHoje

ROMANIA

4X4, Car

RUSSIA

Autoreview

Klaxon-media

SLOVENIA

Avto Foto Market

SPAIN

Automóvil, Coche Actual

AutoHebdo

El Economista

Autopista

El Mundo

El Periódico de Catalunya

SWEDEN

Sydsvenska Dagbladet

Dagens Industri

Vi Bilägare

SWITZERLAND

Blick/ SonntagBlick, Schweizer Illustrierte

Mobil Revue, AZ Medien

TURKEY

Sabah Gazetesi

[-T- Sport]

Close... Bloody VW's! lol.

Not a bad effort though!

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Not 'World' Car of the Year...

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2009 Results

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Here more detaisl from the voting CoY2010 Europe:

Great: in Sweden full points!!!

Ranking iQ by country

BELGIUM 1

CZECH R. 1

FINLAND 1

FRANCE 1

HUNGARY 1

IRELAND 1

RUSSIA 1

SPAIN 1

SWEDEN 1

UNITED KINGDOM 1

GREECE 2

ITALY 2

NETHERLANDS 2

NORWAY 2

ROMANIA 2

SWITZERLAND 2

TURKEY 2

POLAND 3

SLOVENIA 3

DENMARK 4

AUSTRIA 5

GERMANY 5

PORTUGAL 6

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THE INDEPENDENT on Sunday, 6 Dec

Car of the year? You must be joking. A flawed voting system means the prestigious title has gone to the wrong vehicle, yet again

By John Simister

The Car of the Year jury has judged. Fifty-nine members across Europe, including me, voting for the oldest, most prestigious and most coveted annual car award of all. Their task? To agree upon the "most outstanding car for 2010", a car which must have been launched in 2009, of which at least 5,000 examples will be made each year, and which will be available for sale in at least five European countries by January.

And yes, the most outstanding car for 2010 is the Volkswagen Polo. You're right, that is not a sentence which seems to make sense. But by a process almost self-destructively democratic, the Polo is Car of the Year 2010.

Don't get me wrong here. The Polo is a good little car, even if "little" nowadays means it is bigger than a Mk3 Golf. It looks sharper than its forgettable predecessor, a car which had come perilously close to falling off British supermini-buyers' radar, and it is greener and weighs less. There's a super-frugal Bluemotion version too. All of this is admirable, but Ford's Fiesta is overall a better, more joy-giving car and yet it missed out on last year's COTY award by just one point.

So here's the problem. A Car of the Year should be the car that most advances the art of the car while also best achieving what it sets out to achieve. It should be a car able to go down in history as an innovator, a standard-setter, an exemplar of how it should be done. The problem is that the most memorable and most innovative cars are the most likely to encourage extremes of opinion, and those who take against them will mark them down. Thus are their chances scuppered while the blander candidates, the ones lots of people merely quite like, scoop up lots of upper-middling scores and win. That is how, in the past, the Renault 9 won the award, and more recently the Peugeot 307 trumped the Mini. Incredible but true.

The car that probably should have won this year is the Toyota iQ. As it was, this most cleverly-conceived mini-car in years came second, 10 points behind the Polo. Twenty-five people placed the Polo highest against 20 who went for the iQ, but only three of those Polo placings scored the maximum-allowed 10 points, against six for the Toyota.

In case you're wondering, the scoring works like this. Each juror has 25 points to distribute among at least five of the seven shortlisted cars, with no score higher than 10 and no joint top scores, while the shortlist itself consists of the seven cars most nominated in the first round of voting. As a judging system, then, COTY seems perfectly fair but it can lack the ability to come up with an inspiring result. This needs to be addressed, maybe by altering the scoring system, maybe by clarifying the judging criteria which are currently loose.

The Polo, the Astra and the 3008 were not on my own shortlist, incidentally, while the Suzuki Alto, the Porsche Panamera and the Hyundai i20 were. Few jurors shared my admiration for the splendid Skoda Yeti, unfortunately, but it and the iQ were, for me, the revelations of 2009. :)