Vote (or die!) for Internet car of the year
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Keith Griffin, About.com's used car expert, may not have P. Diddy's grandiose marketing budget behind his push for a car and truck of the year award chosen exclusively by the Internet. But Griffin's get-out-the-vote message for consumers to voice their choices on the year's best models — much like Diddy's national youth tour during the 2004 presidential election — is equally as grassroots, yet completely free of awful rhyming, cheap cologne, and rap group upstarts.
Griffin picked 12 online automotive journalists, including Boston.com's "car doctor" John Paul, as jurors to vote on semi-finalists. Unlike every other automotive media award, the Internet and only the Internet will decide the winners.
Head over to www.internetcarandtruckoftheyear.com and vote for the finalists through Oct. 16. The finalists will be subject to another round of voting on Oct. 19, with the winner decided in November. Awards will be presented in real life, likely at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show.
And in case you don't vote or forget, we've let Diddy know all about it.
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Boston.com reports the latest trends, auto shows and wrings out the newest cars in our city's hellish maze - and across the great roads of New England.In the garage: 2008 MBTA Zone 1A monthly pass, 1995 21-speed Iron Horse. Bill Griffith is an automotive correspondent for The Boston Globe and has reviewed cars for 10 years. He was also the Globe's assistant sports editor for 25 years and the paper's sports media columnist.
In the garage (over the years): 1956 T-Bird, 1959 Nash Metropolitan, 1980 El Camino, 1997 supercharged Camry TRD.
