Car of the Year 2008 - Who voted how…
November 19th, 2007One interesting aspect of the 2008 Car of the Year website is a section entitled ‘The Voting Grid’. Sounds riveting doesn’t it? But bear with us.
The Voting Grid shows all the judges, where they come from, how they voted and why. Splitting the vote into nations, it appears opinion on on the Fiat 500 is most strongly divided in Germany where judges granted the car either 10 or 2 points and nothing else. France, Great Britain and Italy generally appear smitten and Portugal comes over largely unimpressed.
We’re not sure if the voting could be labelled the automotive equivalent of the politically charged Eurovision Song Contest, but it is quite interesting to see how different cars are received (by the press at least) in different countries and cultures all the same.
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November 19th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
The lucky British journalists had the chance to try ALL the cars back-to-back at Silverstone so they could make up their minds and award the points.
Does anyone have a picture of the line-up of the cars at Silverstone, or have any of the British journalists said which 500 model they were given to try….whichever one it was, it seems some of them didn’t find it very comfortable.
JUDGE RAY HUTTON SAID:
” On the by-ways of Britain the ride is shocking and the noise of the 100 bhp 1.4 is wearing on a long journey. Better to choose the 1.2 and stay in town.”
ANDREW ENGLISH SAID IN DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER:
“…bumpy roads showed up woeful inadequacies in the chassis…I’d need a Papal edict on compulsory days off for chiropractor.”
Was it a 500 Popular, Lounge or Sport they drove I wonder?
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