Our reader Mav3rick was disappointed to see there was no Peugeot RCZ on the nominees list of the 2011 European Car of the Year. We expect there’s probably a rule to explain its absence from the list, remembering that the criteria for the Euroepan car of the year is the following:

Many candidates for Car of the Year 2011 award are already on sale in different European markets or will be in a few weeks, and therefore they meet the eligibility criteria. The contenders, that could be 35 or so in the list to be officially issued in September, must be new models available in at least five European countries at the time of voting, with foreseeable minimum sales of 5,000 per year.

So unless the Peugeot RCZ has no plans to reach 5,000 units a year in sales or isn’t available in five different countries, its omission seems a strange choice. But leaving aside the ‘rules’ so to speak, are there any other recent models you think missed out but which deserved a spot?

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