Car of the Year - iQ - 2. Platz

[LALA]

Das war knapp nur 10 Punkte fehlen dem iQ um ganz obenauf dem Treppchen zu sein.
Jetzt ist er knapp hinter Polo (347 Punkte) und mit deutlicher Vorsprung zum Astra (221 Punkte).

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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

[WingMan]

Woher hast Du diese Information Lala?
Freut mich aber zu hören

LG
WingMAn

[baiertaler]

Hehe, wollte auch schon nachfragen. Das Copyright liegt bei LALA

[HaBe]

Das war knapp nur 10 Punkte fehlen dem iQ um ganz obenauf dem Treppchen zu sein.
Jetzt ist er knapp hinter Polo (347 Punkte) und mit deutlicher Vorsprung zum Astra (221 Punkte).

So eine Nachricht liest man gerne.

Dann kann ich ja erhobenen Hauptes neben meinem Sohn parken.

[LALA]

Noch ein paar Details zu dem zweiten Platz vom iQ.

Leider waren die Punkte aus Deutschland der Herren Peters (0 !!!!), Reichle (1), Kacher (1) und aus Österreich Herr Bauser (1) und Nöhrer (3) für den Platz im Schatten des Ersten verantwortlich.

Besonders die Schweden gaben dem kleinen Toyota immer vollste Punkzahl (10!).


Hier die Plätze die der iQ in den einzelnen Ländern belegt:


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

[LALA]

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.