Jeremy Clarkson names GT86 car of the year in Top Gear 2012 Awards!

[renzO]

Originally Posted by dem00n

I'm a bit confused...this is Jeremy Clarkson car of the year...not top gears overall car of the year?
Because Hammond and May announced their own cars of the year...hmm.

Yeah, it is JC's pick not the overall, pretty sure they will announce the overall car of the year in an episode. On a side note, not very surprised with Hammond's pick, seeing as he is a Zonda fanboy lol.

[dem00n]

Originally Posted by renzO

Yeah, it is JC's pick not the overall, pretty sure they will announce the overall car of the year in an episode. On a side note, not very surprised with Hammond's pick, seeing as he is a Zonda fanboy lol.

Its a hell of a car that Pagani...id die for that.

I was really surprised by Mays pick, a Mclaren? Damn...

[Efferalgan]

Originally Posted by renzO

Yeah, it is JC's pick not the overall, pretty sure they will announce the overall car of the year in an episode. On a side note, not very surprised with Hammond's pick, seeing as he is a Zonda fanboy lol.

It actually IS the overall "Top Gear Magazine Car of the Year" - I bought the magazine in London last week and it is quite obvious that it is.

In fact it appears even twice in the magazine. In addition to the COTY award (scans kindly posted earlier in this thread) GT86 is also the "Coupe of the Year": in the article called "Clone Wars" there is a detailed comparison of GT86 and BRZ in which GT86 marginally wins just because they have to chose one of the 2 cars.


Update:

And another confirmation that GT86 IS the Car of the Year - even Hitler is massively pissed-off:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4tXIlYge3w"]Hitler Hears that the Toyota GT86 is Car of the Year - YouTube[/ame]

[jadewbj]

And then later, while hanging around in a San Diego car park, we noticed another car. We had no idea what it was. It had 4 wheels, four doors and was made from metal. There were windows and doors, and neither of us could come up with a single reason why someone should have bought such a thing.

It wasn't as stupid as the Nissan and Chevy we’d seen earlier. In fact, it wasn't stupid at all. Nor was it ugly. It was nothing. It was just a car shaped hole in the view. Later, we learned it was a Hyundai. We even found out which model. But we can’t remember now.

Post that on the genesis forum. heheheheheh

[TRev]

I would if I hadn't just posted that one of the many reasons I sold my GC was due to shock availability and we have or will have the choice of Konis, AST, MCS, etc.