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There are currently three sets of Awards on this page.
For the World's Best Cars of the Year awards, I am going by memory. So if you see a car that I have put in 1992, but you know was really an "all-new" car in 1991, then thatis my mistake, not someone else's. I like looks and features and style innovation. I tend not to like exotics as not being practical or realistic, but find myself including some of the more expensive cars anyway.
| Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | Notes |
| The World's Best Cars of the Year Award | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Peugeot 405 | Nissan Maxima | Mitsubishi Galant | |
| 1990 | Nissan 300Z | Citroen XM | Peugeot 605 | |
| 1991 | Alfa 164 | Subaru SVX | SAAB 9000 | |
| 1992 | Dodge Intrepid | Chrysler LHS | Mini Cooper | |
| 1993 | Ford Probe | Jeep Grand Cherokee | Chevy Camaro | The Probe GT was Ford's last beautiful design |
| 1994 | Mazda RX-7 | |||
| 1995 | BMW 3 | |||
| 1996 | Dodge Caravan/Chrysler Town & Country | |||
| 1997 | Alfa 156 | Chevy Corvette | Pontiac Grand Prix | |
| 1998 | Dodge Intrepid | |||
| 1999 | Plymouth Prowler | Chrylser 300M | Cadillac Seville STS | |
| 2000 | Peugeot 406 Coupe | Mercedes S Class | BMW M5 | Lincoln LS comes close! |
| 2001 | Infinity Q45 | |||
| 2002 | Nissan Altima | Mercedes SL | ||
| 2003 | 350Z | Infinity G35 | Honda Accord | A banner year for Japanese cars. |
| 2004 | BMW 6 series | Mercedes CLS | Peugot 407 | |
| 2005 | Toyota Prius | Chrysler 300 | Acura RL | |
| 2006 | Lexus GS450h | Chevy Corvette | Buick Lucerne | |
| 2007 | Lexus LS600h | Opel GT/Saturn Skye/Pontiac Solstice | Mazda CX-9 | |
| 2008 | Buick Enclave | Cadillac CTS | Ford Edge | |
| 2009 | Toyota Prius | Audi A7 | Buick Lacrosse | |
| The World of Cars' Best and Worst of The 1990s | ||||
| Best Car Magazine | Car | Autocar | Clean sweep for the Brits! When will the Americans notice? | |
| Most Improved Product Line | Renault | Alfa Romeo | Chrysler | Volkswagen merits an honorable mention. |
| Most Improved Style | Chrysler | Volvo | Audi is so interesting, yet basically has only one design theme. | |
| Most Degeneration of Style | Nissan | Ford | Rover | Is the Altima a sign of better things from Nissan? |
| Unheralded Show Cars | BMW M9 | Pininfarina Nautica | Ford GT90 | |
| The Greatest Show Cars | Peugeot Oxia | Chrysler Portofino | '91 Chrylser 300 | |
| Welcome Back from ICU | Audi | Jaguar | Chrysler | |
| Worst Trends | SUVs | Fuel consumption | Road-rage | Drive-by-wire |
| Looking forward to... | 4 pt. seat-belts | Alternative energy | ||
| Only Women Need Apply | Toyota | Hyundai | Mitsubishi | |
| Time to Expand Demographics | Buick | Cadillac | Toyota | |
| Still Ugly After All These Years | Hyundai | GMC Trucks | GM Interiors | |
| What ever happened to? | Lotus Omega | |||
| This is your father's Oldsmobile | Lotus Esprit Turbo | |||
| The Best of Guigiaro | Subaru SVX | Lotus Esprit Turbo | DMC DeLorean | My favorite design company |
| The Best Studios | ItalDesign | Pininfarina | Bertone | |
| The Bad Guys | Ferdinand Porsche | Louis Renault | Henry Ford | |
| The Good Guys | Opel | Opel fled the Nazis and gave it all up | ||
| They started with planes | SAAB | BMW | Mitsubishi | Look closely at BMW's logo |
| The Best Innovations | Airbags | Minivans | F1 Paddles | I know. Minivans and airbags started in the '80s... But still |
| How About a Home Run? | SAAB | Mitsubishi | Subaru | |
| Unlamented Losses | Toyota Supra | Mercur Skorpio | Mitsubishi 3000GT | |
| Lamented Losses | Nissan 300Z | Sterling 827 Hatchback | Ford Probe | |
| Why Don't We Get 'Em? | Nissan Skyline | |||
| The Best Races | LeMans | Paris-Dakar | Pike's Peak | |
| Most Overrated Cars | Porsche 911 | BMW 3 Series | Ford Mustang | |
| Ideal 3 Car Garage | Audi S8 | Ferrari F355 | 30' Winnebago | |
| The Best and Worst of WWII | ||||
| Early WWII Tanks | Char 1 bis | KV-1 | Matilda II | |
| Mid WWII Tanks | T34 | Panther V | Sherman Firefly | |
| Late WWII Tanks | JS-3 | Pershing | Tiger II | |
| Early WWII Fighters | Spitfire | Me-109 | P40 | |
| Mid WWII Fighters | FW 190 | P-51 | Yak 9 | |
| Late WWII Fighters | Me-262 | La-5 | Tempest | |
| Early WWII Battleships | Bismarck | Richelieu | Kongo | |
| Late WWII Battleships | Iowa | Yamato | Vanguard | |
| The Specialist Infantry | Finnish Ski Troops | German Pioneers | British Commandos | |
| Early WWII Carriers | Akagi/Kaga | Lexington | ||
| Late WWII Carriers | Essex | Shinano | Illustrious | |
| WWII Battle-Cruisers | Strasbourg | Alaska | Scharnhorst | |
| Most Elegant BB or BC | Littorio | Richelieu | Scharnhorst | Hood and Tennesee get honorable mentions |
| Ugliest Battleship | Ise | Kongo | ||
| Most Menacing Battleship | Yamato | Kongo | Bismarck | |
| The Megalomaniacs | Hitler | Stalin | Mussolini | No surprises here! |
| WWII Movies | Saving Private Ryan | Stalingrad | Tora, Tora, Tora | |
| The Land Battles | Stalingrad | D-Day | Kursk | |
| The Naval Battles | Phillipine Sea | Midway | Sink the Bismarck | |
| The Air Battles | Marianas Turkey Shoot | Battle of Britain | Malta | |
| The Saddest Battles | Rape of Nanking | Warsaw Uprising | Leningrad | |
| The Innovations | Jet Aircraft | Atom Bomb | ||
French Military Victories...