Well the results are in. After just under 8 weeks of voting we are declaring the winner of DiecastSociety.com 2017 Model of the Year. Total votes this year generated 3,427, a far cry from the 5000+ from just one year ago.
Without further ado the winner is Almost Real!!! The model, Land Rover, Range Rover with 22% of vote or 752 votes in total. Congratulations to them, the model is a well deserved first place contender. The runner up is CMC with their Talbot-Lago T150-C SS Coupe (17%, 579 votes), and third place goes to AUTOart, with their Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SV (16%, 563 votes). All results are shared below.
Thank you to all who took the time to help generate our base list for 2017 and those who took the time to place a vote. Looking forward to what 2018 has to bring!
Almost Real – Land Rover/Range Rover (22%, 752 Votes)
CMC – Talbot-Lago T150-C SS Coupe (17%, 579 Votes)
AUTOart – Lamborghini Aventador LP750-4 SV (16%, 563 Votes)
Welly/GTAutos – Bugatti Chiron (6%, 218 Votes)
BBR – Pagani BC (5%, 183 Votes)
Fronti-Art – Koenigsegg RS1 (5%, 170 Votes)
Bburago | Signature – Ferrari FXX-K (5%, 159 Votes)
Maisto | Exclusive – Lamborghini Centenario (4%, 147 Votes)
Kyosho – Land Rover Defender 90 (4%, 130 Votes)
Norev – Mercedes-Benz S560 (3%, 114 Votes)
MR Collection – Ferrari 812 Superfast (3%, 105 Votes)
AUTOCRAFT – W Motors Lykan HyperSport (3%, 91 Votes)
TopSpeed – F-Type ‘Project 7’ Concept (2%, 82 Votes)
GT Spirit – Brabus Rocket 900 (2%, 76 Votes)
Llario – Delahaye Saoutchik Type 175 S (2%, 58 Votes)
Nicely done!
BTW the “Welly/GTAutos – Bugatti Chiron” should not have been included in this list in the first place since it was not released in 2017 and now is further delayed. Clearly a 2018 model if it gets released.
Agreed. We were on good authority it was coming for December 2017. 2018 list…
I didn’t love any of these choices. I liked some of them. Even bought a few but only love brings the votes. Maybe I will vote next year. Some tasty offerings comin’……
Thank you DS Team for all the excellent work you are doeing by the years! About this final result, Almost Real deserves to win and I have a feeling that this year we also have a strong battle between this three manufacturers. BTW I love all three in blue!
Thank you. Yes, looking forward to 2018 as well!
I didn’t vote because there was not one item on the list of nominees I had any interest in. Perhaps your reduced voting numbers are an indication that others feel the same way.
Perhaps? Did you comment of the preliminary list when we opened it up to the collector base? What model(s) did you suggest for the model of year?
Sometimes in life there are occasions where trying to push water uphill is an obvious waste of time. I would have suggested mostly motorsport subjects, and not one made the list of contenders.
Well, AR deserves to win but some question marks may be necessary. For one, it’s not available in Europe. Even more so for the Bugatti: nobody has seen it. So how did it get to 4th place? You also forget to mention that, like last year, the contest was tainted with a flood of votes for the winner somewhere last year. CMC will not be happy with that. But BBR will be very pleased with a deserved 5th place on a diecast minded forum. And I have the Defender from Kyosho on my shelf; a very good effort and issued way before AR, so why only 9th? As for AA, a 3rd place for a 6 year old refurbished model? Really? Will the Aventador S be on this years list? I’m sure it will be second again! (After CMC of course.) But what really boggles the mind is the last place of the Ilario. The 1/18 scale was a first last year form Ilario and came out on top in the review here at DCS. I wonder what would have happened if CMC had chosen this one. Doesn’t that tell us something? Something we can learn from. But it gets my vote. Posthumous.