European Car of the Year A shortlist of seven cars is selected by a simple vote. For the final round of voting, each jury member has 25 points to distribute among the finalists. The points must be distributed to at least five cars, with no more than ten to any one car, and no joint top marks. The voting is open, and each jury member provides published justification for their vote distribution. Under these rules, the decisiveness of the victory has varied greatly. For example, in 1988, the Peugeot 405 won by 212 points, the biggest gap in the history of the "European Car of
Peugeot 205 Timo Salonen and Juha Kankkunen respectively against such notable competition from Audi, Lancia and Ford, with an Evolution 2 model being introduced for the latter of those two seasons. Peugeot 205s have won the following World Rally Championship rounds: Peugeot 205 The Peugeot 205 is a supermini car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1983 to 1998. It was declared "car of the decade" by "CAR Magazine" in 1990. It also won "What Car?"'s Car of the Year for 1984. The styling of the 205 is often thought to be a Pininfarina design, although Gerard Welter claims it as