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 — two rides at a time, pick the one you like more. Votes feed an ELO rating system that ranks every ride ever entered.
There are two pools. Ride of the Month is 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. All-time never closes: every car ever entered battles for the all-time leaderboard.
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. Most votes count 1×. Premium members, Server Boosters, Verified Vehicles and admins count 2×; holding more than one of those doesn't stack.
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. Changed your mind? You have 10 minutes to undo your most recent vote from the toast that appears after you cast it.
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.
If you have a car in the current round, 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.
On the all-time board there are anti-pump caps. You can pick the same winning car at most 10 times in 24 hours, and you can only ever be one of the voters behind a given car a limited number of times — 10 to start, plus one more for every 30 days your account has existed. Both exist so a car's rating reflects how many people like it rather than how persistent its biggest fan is. When you hit one, the site quietly deals you a fresh pair instead.
Every ride carries an ELO rating — the same idea chess uses. 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.
Round ratings and all-time ratings are separate. 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.
The ±N next to an all-time rating is its uncertainty: a ride with few matchups has a noisy rating (big ±), and the value shrinks as votes accumulate. 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.
Provisional means there isn't enough data to rank something yet, and 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 150 matchups before its win rate is. Each board says which bar it's using.
One caveat on winners: the monthly winner is a recorded result, not a computed one. It's 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 a podium — gold, silver and bronze — and those medals follow a car around the site. Cars also earn a badge for being the best of their make: the top brand finishers get one, 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.