The results are out and MotorBeam readers have selected the 2011 car and bike of the year. The voting saw huge response but there was just no competition in both categories, with the winners taking away a major chunk of the votes with no competition in sight. Out of all votes registered, the Mahindra XUV5OO was the clear winner, taking away 37% of the votes, the new Maruti Swift was second with just 8% votes while the all new Ford Fiesta garnered 6% votes. When it comes to bikes, the Honda CBR250R amassed 40% of the votes, with the Hero Impulse coming in second place (18% votes) and the Kawasaki Ninja 650R coming in third place (12 % votes).
Thus the 2011 MotorBeam Car of the year is the Mahindra XUV5OO, while the 2011 MotorBeam Bike of the year is the Honda CBR250R (we had predicted this in the beginning of 2011 here).
We also ran a competition, wherein the top ten comments on the voting post would be awarded with a Star of India t-shirt. The ten winners are Ragu EN, Raj, Hritik, Bhuvan, Aks, Akhil, Jawad M, Bhavesh, Smijo and Asif. Please use the contact form above to send me your address, we will get in touch with Nissan and dispatch your t-shirts soon. For those who did not win, don’t be disappointed, as we will be having another competition soon.
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happy to see IMPULSE at 2nd position….
earlier there was close competition between ninja n impulse…
:)
how it got so much changed. Verna was so ahead of swift. Some1 chain voted Swift. Anyways its so easy for a single person for voting multiple times from the same machine and browser too. so the voting is no way fair.
Abhisek, actually no because once you voted, you can vote again from same ip.
Is that mine Name on the list??
Raj, yes it’s you.
Yes Abhishek is right, Verna was much ahead with much higher votes than swift, and now it is in second position ?? Yes the voting is not fair due to some problem.
Sorry in second last position
Augustine, voting was as fair as it could get, you might not have seen votes being updated due to cache, but there was no sudden upswing as far as I can recollect.
Fas, ru sure ur explicitly checking the IP and cancelling the duplicate votes based on the IP? Because from the client side its quite easy to vote again by applying simple ideas like deleting the stored cookies..
IMHO, at the first place, Swift should not be there in the list or competition. Because Swift is basically a facelift, whereas all other cars are TOTALLY NEW cars. With so many blind followers of Maruti, I am surprised that Swift is NOT #1.
R Rao, the Swift might look like the old one, but is all new.
but the winning car n bike were truly most deserving.
Thank you Faisal for selecting me one of the lucky winners
Smijo, your most welcome ;-)
Its great that Mahindra’s XUV 500 is car of the year and Honda CBR250 is the bike of the year.
Indeed its great to to be among 10 people who are selected as winner
Thanks guys for selecting me as 1 among the 10.
I am unable to locate the contact form. Can anyone help me in finding it.
Ragu, your most welcome. I got your email ;-)
Hi ragu
Contact details are on the top between archive polls and gallery
thanks Smi jo. Updated
hi..when is bajaj ulc launch? is it today??
Satish, yes its today and you can see the updates on the home page.
Thanks Faisal.
Ragu, your most welcome.
Guys, Thanks for choosing me among best comments.
I have sent details to you guys using the “Contact US” form.
Thanks again Faisal.
Bhuvan, your welcome.
Fas, i missed this and saw this report and my name only now… So, i will send my details soon…Thanx a lot for choosing me as the winner.
Akhil, your most welcome.
Fas, Am i supposed to send you the contact details through the “Contact US ” form ?
Yes Abhisek, we deleted duplicate votes from same ips. Anyways, even if some one tries to vote multiple times, the XUV5OO and CBR250R were easily the winners and there was no competition. They were leading by a good margin since day one.