Welcome to the Top Gear Magazine Awards. Not the result of endless 'road testing' or focus groups or even a poll of the public. No, our awards are decided by the tried-and-tested method of a long evening in the pub. And, no, we don't always agree on everything.

If you watched the last in the series of Top Gear on the telly, you may well have witnessed the boys nominating the new Ford Mondeo as their Car of the Year. Well, it's one of ours, too, but not the car of the year. To find out what that is, you'll need to buy the Awards Issue of Top Gear Magazine, but first check out the 11 contenders in our gallery.