Driven's Car of the Year 2013 is... Photo / Ted Baghurst
Just when you start getting into the swing of the year, the decorations are going up, the malls are heaving with the great unwashed and everyone with a licence is out on the roads.
It certainly doesn't seem like a whole year since we last dusted off the old boxing
gloves and set about the arduous and argumentative process that is choosing the Driven Car of the Year.
Taste in cars is an extremely personal thing - it has to be, otherwise nobody would have ever bought the original Prius. So when we start huffing, puffing and waving our arms about, it can get a bit, er, intense.
But this year was such a strong one that it was a particularly difficult choice.
There was bloodshed, and some of us won't be talking until at least early January, but the upshot is our Car of the Year has been chosen, as have the winners of our various categories.
