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To me, this seems a daft way of measuring how good something is - more like how good it marketing is. Page views do not equal how good something is, especially if it appears on prominent links more often than something else.
I would also point out that this open to abuse - people deliberately voting for (or against) something can affect the result by visiting the page several times. For the comic-book afficianardos here, this is what happened when DC asked in a poll a few years ago whether Robin (Batman &...) should be killed off - they forgot to block people voting multiple times, meaning that some who wanting the character killed off voted thousands of time each (for free) via the web.
Surely the 'votes' here should be either by the staff members of just a straight vote of all site members, maybe with a list of nominated cars for each category and then marking each out of 5 or 10; the car with the best score with a minimum number of nominations in the yop 5 would win, or at least the old-fashioned 'top 5' approach. The scoring here, to me, is like 'airplay' determining which song gets to No.1.
Just my 5p's worth.
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