NF500 / great britain

One 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.