evo Car of the Decade results are in: We’ll continue to argue
By The Prodigal Fool, published on 13 January 2010
We couldn’t resist drawing your attention to evo’s Car of the Decade poll just once more. You see, the results are now in and, interestingly, they mirror the debate we had here at Prodigal Towers after our initial post.
We declared that we were backing the Porsche GT3 but one Prodigal Guide contributor, Straight-Six, was having none of it.
He took to the comments section and his own Twitter account in protest. His argument was simple: forget looks, forget heritage, you have to consider value for money and to what extent a car has truly raised the bar. To him then, Nissan’s GT-R was the clear winner.
Now it would seem that the readers of evo agree with him as they’ve just voted the GT-R the winner. But note that the evo editors couldn’t help taking the opportunity to praise the Porsche again even as they begrudgingly declared the plucky Nissan as the poll winner:
A wise choice, and one we’d not disagree with. The way it’s advanced the performance car game and its ability to demolish cars two or three times its price is nothing short of astonishing.
[...] we had a straw poll round the office to pick our winner, with ten of evo’s top scribblers picking their favourite from the final ten cars (view them here) to determine the office winner.
Neither the GT-R or LP670-4 can hold off the inevitable landslide from one car though. Yep, it’s the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, aka Kermit, our eCoty 2007 winner.
Richard Meaden – “the RS was – and remains – the closest to my idea of the perfect modern drivers’ car.”
New evo editor Nick Trott sums it up best:
The car I most desire among these is the GT3 RS. It’s not the best (GT-R), nor is it the most impressive achievement (again, GT-R) but of all the cars in this list it’s the one I’d I’d tip my last gallon of fuel into.
So there you have it. Is seems the GT3 vs GT-R debate is set to rage on. Head on over to evo to read their full story and let us know what you think in the comments section.
evo Car of the Decade results are in: We’ll continue to argue
We couldn’t resist drawing your attention to evo’s Car of the Decade poll just once more. You see, the results are now in and, interestingly, they mirror the debate we had here at Prodigal Towers after our initial post. We declared that we were backing the Porsche GT3 but one Prodigal Guide contributor, Straight-Six, was [...]
