Welcome to the most inclusive Readers’ Choice Awards, anywhere, ever.

How inclusive are we?

You don’t even have to be an actual OnAllCylinders reader—or even make any choices (simply throw darts at your computer screen or mobile device and let chance decide!)—to participate. Neat!

But we hope you’ll decide to do both—read our stuff and participate in what is slowly becoming the most significant awards program in the world. (Very slowly.)

And since you’re reading this right now, and most likely doing so at OnAllCylinders, we encourage you to take the extra step to vote for your favorites and share what you think.

To participate in the 2017 edition of OAC’s Reader’s Choice Awards, you can:

The Nominees

Best Current American High Performance Car

Life comes down to just a few moments where the decisions we make can alter the course of the rest of our lives. This, right here, is clearly one of those moments. Don’t vote with your mind; vote with your heart. Or, with darts. Either way is fine.

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Best American Vehicle Make

This category is less about us having an American vehicle bias and more about limiting the Readers’ Choice Awards to 15 categories, lest we create an endless string of categories and spend the rest of our lives perpetually counting votes and never declaring any winners. Can you imagine not having a 2018 edition? We can. And it’s terrifying.

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Best Current Full-Size Truck

There are several ways to measure “best” when evaluating trucks because, with trucks, function often ranks higher than form. How do you measure it?

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Best New Product

Every year, automotive aftermarket manufacturers make awesome new products to give us something else to wish we owned. This year has been no different. Choose the best new product from our list of nominees or, if you know of another, please write in your vote.

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Best Current Diesel Engine

Can we overcome our preexisting automaker biases and loyalties to choose a diesel powerplant made by another manufacturer? Hmm?! Can we?!?! Probably not. Which is perfectly okay by us.

  • Nissan/Cummins 5.0L
  • Ford 6.7L Power Stroke
  • Chevy/GMC 6.6L Duramax
  • RAM 6.0L EcoDiesel
  • GM 1.6L Ecotec Turbo Diesel

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Vic Edelbrock Pioneer Award (Most Iconic Aftermarket Product)

The Pioneer Award is now the Vic Edelbrock Pioneer Award in honor of the iconic figure we had to say goodbye to this year, and all that he did for motorsports and the advancement of performance auto parts. There are several iconic aftermarket products, most of which we had to leave off our list of nominees. Even Vic would’ve had a tough time choosing just one.

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Best Television/Web Series

When getting your automotive TV or video fix, what’s your show of choice? There are several worthy options. Here are our 2017 nominees:

  • Roadkill
  • The Grand Tour
  • Gas Monkey Garage
  • Dirt Every Day
  • Barrett-Jackson Auction Coverage

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Best Aftermarket Wheel Manufacturer

Whoever coined the phrase “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” was probably mediating an argument between two car guys arguing about wheels.

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Most Useful Garage Tool

Honestly, delicious adult beverages are our most useful garage tools. [Obligatory Legal Disclaimer: So long as we’re not driving or playing frisbee garage golf with old disc brake rotors.] What garage tool do you consider to be the most useful?

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Best In-Development New Vehicle

What say you? The mid-engine Corvette that no one seems to be 100 percent sure about? The new trans-brake-equipped Demon? Wrangler? Bronco? GT500? How great is it that, in this instance, every choice is correct?

  • Dodge Challenger SRT Demon
  • Jeep Wrangler JL
  • Ford Bronco
  • Mid-Engine Corvette
  • Ford Shelby GT500

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Best Aftermarket Exhaust System Manufacturer

Next to wheels and tires, exhaust systems are among the most common upgrades vehicle owners make. Which means, this category is less theoretical than most. When it comes time to make exhaust enhancements, which manufacturer do you turn to?

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Best Street Performance Tires

When you’re putting new rubber on your ride, what company name do you want on the outside of your tires? Which company, do you think, makes the best performance tires for the street?

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Best Off-Road/Racing Automotive Forum

As the popular saying goes, “Opinions are like apples, everyone has one.” At least, we think that’s how it goes. And if there’s one thing we know about internet forums, there are A LOT of apples.

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Best Street/Daily Driver Automotive Forum

Continuing this apple theme just a bit longer, don’t be sour just because your favorite forum wasn’t nominated this year. Write in your favorite online hangout where you and all your apple friends hang out sharing photos of peeled oranges. Yes, we took that too far.

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Best Off-Road Accessories

When life takes you off-road, what is the ultimate accessory you won’t leave the safety of the streets without?

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Author: OnAllCylinders Staff