The Car Community's head-to-head ride vote, explained.
This is the voting site for The Car Community Discord server. Members submit their own rides, and everyone votes on them head-to-head. Votes feed an ELO rating system that ranks every ride ever entered.
Tap the ride you'd rather have. On desktop, ← and → pick, ↓ skips.
Win a matchup, take points from the loser. Beating a higher-rated ride pays extra.
Votes stack into the current round and the all-time standings, updating with every pick.
A fresh round each month. Members enter cars during the submissions window, then voting runs to the end of the round and a winner is crowned — one per month, locked in for life on the Winners page. A round is ranked on all of its votes at once, so a vote on the first day counts as much as one on the last.
Never closes. Every car ever entered battles for the all-time leaderboard. Pairs lean toward the top of the board, but every car keeps turning up, and one that starts winning climbs into more pairs.
Anyone can browse, but voting needs a Discord sign-in and membership in the server — that keeps the rankings a community opinion rather than a drive-by poll. Every member's vote counts the same, whatever roles they hold.
You'll never be shown your own car, and you only judge any given pairing once — once you've picked between two rides, that matchup won't come back.
Picked the wrong one? Undo your latest vote with the Undo button beside Details, or press U, and the pair comes back. Once you vote again or leave the page, it's locked in.
A few rules stop any one person from steering the board. In every case the vote is still recorded and still counts toward your own profile, streaks and XP — it just doesn't move the standings.
Your votes in that round don't affect its standings. You're competing in it, so judging the field you're in is a conflict of interest — whether or not anyone intends it that way. This applies to the round only: your all-time votes count exactly as they always did, including on the cars you're up against.
You can pick the same winning car at most 10 times in 24 hours, and at most 10 times ever to start, plus one more for every 30 days your account has existed. Any one car can come up for you twice that many times, whichever way you vote. Both exist so a car's rating reflects how many people like it rather than how persistent its biggest fan or critic is. Once you've used a car up, the site quietly stops dealing it to you.
Every ride carries an ELO rating. Cars start at 1200. Win a matchup and you take points from the loser; beat a higher-rated car and you take more.
A car's first 15 matchups move it faster, so a new ride finds roughly the right level quickly and then settles down — which is why a rating can leap early on and then barely budge later.
Votes in a monthly round move that round's standings only. When the round closes, its result folds into the all-time board as a single adjustment — a dominant month nudges a car up and, over repeated rounds, moves it toward the level its results imply, but no one month can vault a car to the top. That's deliberate: the all-time board is meant to be the slower, harder number.
A settled all-time rating is good to about ±32, and more votes don't narrow that: the live rating moves with every vote, so it never pins down tighter. A ride still settling in shows its wider ±N beside the rating. Where the leading cars sit inside each other's error bars, the board marks them as a group rather than pretending the ordering between them is meaningful — at the very top, the gaps are usually smaller than the uncertainty.
Not enough data to rank yet, so it's listed separately rather than mixed into the board. The bar depends on what's being ranked: a car needs at least 3 distinct voters before its all-time ELO is treated as a ranking, and a brand needs at least 100 matchups before its win rate is. In a round, a ride needs 5 different voters before it can place, take a podium spot or win; until then it sits below the placed rides without a number. Each board says which bar it's using.
The monthly winner is normally the top car, but most of the archive was imported from years of Discord history, so an older round's crown can sit somewhere other than the top of the standings you see today.
Rounds award gold, silver and bronze, and those medals follow a car around the site.
The top brand finishers get a badge, with how many places a brand awards depending on how many rides it has in the running, so a badge always means beating a real field.
While a round is young you can predict the winner — call it right and you earn the Crystal Ball badge.
Voting daily builds streaks, and there's a full set of achievements on your profile for the dedicated.
Join the Discord, submit your ride when a round opens, and start voting.