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The Autocar Awards will be the highlight of November, where we recognise the greatest cars, people and achievements in the motor industry in the last 12 months. As part of it, we'll be crowning Autocar's Car Advert of the Year - and we'd like you to vote.

On the shortlist this year are 12 of the most effective, outlandish and memorable TV and cinema car adverts of 2008. We've brought them to you again, with the help of our friends at tellyads.com; simply click the links below to remind yo...Read the full article

Appear to have left out:

Honda Civic - features "Push Start" - battery problems?

Stop-Start Freelander - reliability problems?

That Citroen ad - am I the only one who'd prefer a car that's unmistakeably French, but built by Germans?

How did the Jaguar ad make the short list? It was terrible.

Surely its in the bag for Honda again.  Their ads in recent times have almost all been bloody marvellous, and the live skydivers were incredible!

Manalive:

That Citroen ad - am I the only one who'd prefer a car that's unmistakeably French, but built by Germans?

You're not alone, I assure you!

I've seen hardly any of these ads. Blocking technology for browsers, Sky fast-forward and PVR skip-ahead technology for TVs, plus the fact everyone's too busy on their computers anyway, means only your grandma and grandpa are familiar with ads.

Personally I'd like give all these companies an award for still thinking anyone's paying attention to them. I'd never the get the shape of the trophy approved though...