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Autocar.co.uk readers have chosen the Range Rover as their Car of the Decade.

Autocar’s resident car experts nominated and championed 17 great cars launched during the past ten years for readers to choose from – or voters could suggest their own star car.

Hi-res pictures of the Range Rover, Lotus Elise, Bugatti Veyron and Nissan GT-R

Of more than 7500 votes, some 18 per cent - ...Read the full article

I think the result of this proves how hard a job it was to select one car that stood out. Personally I think it should have been the Veyron or the Prius as polar opposites of what defined the noughties. I'm having a tough time seeing how most of the other top 10 got there.

My vote went to the range rover. The luxury, the ability, everything screams amazing. However, the other reason my vote for car of the decade when to the RR was because unfortunately most people didn't buy it for its abilities, merely the image it portrayed. The 00s were a decade of excess, where the SUV rose and began to fall. And then LR produced the RR sport *shudder*

Hmmm, Im reckoning the Range Rovers owners club probably had something to do with this vote as it comes as a massive shock that this car comes in at Number 1. Now I know that the people have voted but this doesn't stop me from commenting on the results, the Range Rover is an icon from a previous millienia. I respect it, but am I the only one who finds it neither special nor ground breaking?!? In a decade that gave us a family saloon capabile of nearly 200 mph (the Bmw M5) and the digital might that is the Supercar conquering £60k Nissan GT-R. Even the Toyota Prius! The british public reckon the Range Rover is King?!?! No wonder the UK car industry went down the pan if we are all so unimaginative.

This is a victory for common sense. This car is a superb feat of engineering and a car that does everything you'd need a car to do and does it excellently. The pity is that some people are so blinded by government-induced hysteria that they can not laud it so.

I think this should have more correctly been titled "British Car of the Decade" - and the result merely confirms your British reader base. Excluding the locally built cars gives a more global picture, I believe. One thing most of these cars have in common, I suspect, is that they have not made any money for their respective manufacturers!

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so, what does the result tell us? that 18% of voters still dream of the might of old blighty or is this an appreciative nod to the supremacy of german engineering? at any rate, it somehow summarizes the state of british motor industry.

John McToon:

This is a victory for common sense. This car is a superb feat of engineering and a car that does everything you'd need a car to do and does it excellently. The pity is that some people are so blinded by government-induced hysteria that they can not laud it so.

Fantastic! I like your sense of irony McToon. It's a pathetic last-gasp-of-the-empire vote. It's an eff-you to common-sense and progress. Now if you're talking about the original Rangey from 1970 then I'd be with you; that was a genuinely ground-breaking car that created a whole new segment. The latest RR - how is that in any way new or innovative? - it's like the last Dinosaur.

LP in Brighton:

I think this should have more correctly been titled "British Car of the Decade" - and the result merely confirms your British reader base. Excluding the locally built cars gives a more global picture, I believe. One thing most of these cars have in common, I suspect, is that they have not made any money for their respective manufacturers!

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I like the 'ol (BMW designed) Rangey, but "Car of the decade"? I think not.

I voted for the Jag XF - a car not on the list, I wrote it on.

 It came 10th despite this big handicap.

Makes you wonder how many more would have ticked its box if it had been there to start with...

April Fool!!! Oh, really?

Well congratulations to Land Rover/ Range Rover...Shame the Discovery didnt win as that is really the better allround 4x4 in the range and the Defender the best 4x4 that the maker manufactures for off-road use...

Yes the excessiveness of the naughties (in terms of consumer choice and attitudes) is amply demonstrated by the Range Rover and its a worthy champion to what was a disaster of a decade socially and economically...It is a fitting icon!