It’s time to announce the winner for the 2025 Most Valuable Commenter Award! It’s never easy to give an award to just one member of this massive community of enthusiasts, but we gave you the final say, and in the end you chose our resident scrutineer Fleche_dOr!
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The votes are in! Each of our three finalists earned plenty of love from the BaT community, but it was the hilarious videos of @cbjeep‘s basketcase Porsche tripod that ran away with the voting and never looked back.
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The final votes are in, and the ninth running of the Success Story of the Year award has been our biggest one yet! It was off to the races, with @Bigmotorssmallcar’s 911S story taking an early lead and even weathering a brief upset by @Jinxi‘s tale on Sweet Pea the VW Bug. But in the end, the Transatlantic Sportomatic Triomphe secured the most votes, and is thus it is our winner for Success Story of the Year!
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You showed up in droves to pick the 2025 Photo Gallery of the Year, and now we’re ready to announce our winner! The three finalists gave us some incredible scenery to enjoy, whether land, sea, or air. It’s worth noting that all of them are beautifully finished in shades of red, as well. We didn’t plan it that way! But let’s get on with it—the 2025 winner for Photo Gallery of the year is the stunning Maserati 200SI listed by @FantasyJunction!
We wish we didn’t have to announce a winner in this category, because all three are valued contributors to the site and possess minds that should be preserved for science. In the end, the Pontiacs prevailed by a good measure, and the award for 2025 goes to the Pontiff of Panchos, the Judge of Judges, the big boss of Bonnevilles—@BaronVonZeppelin
The votes are in! Out of some ~50,000 BaT auctions, you narrowed it down to three, then came back in droves to crown our winner. It was a close race, and less than 10 votes separated the top three contenders. But when the dust settled, the voice of the people was clear, and our winner for 2025 is The Flintstones Flintmobile-Style Golf Cart!
WINNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT
The community has spoken and the results are in! Here are your winners for the 2025 BaT Awards:
Photo Gallery of the Year: Maserati 200SI by Fantuzzi
Video of the Year: cbjeep’s “Three-Legged Porsche”
Success Story of the Year: Bigmotorssmallcar’s Transatlantic Sportomatic Triomphe!
People’s Choice: Best Listing: the Flintmobile Golf Cart
Most Valuable Commenter: Fleche_dOr
The Cognoscenti Award: BaronVonZeppelin
Thank you again to everyone who nominated, voted, liked, and commented. It’s neat to be able to honor just a few of the BaT members that make this site such a great place to come every day. And we are tremendously grateful to MichelinUSA for sending a free set of Michelin or BFGoodrich tires to every one of our winners—what a huge gift!
1/12 UPDATE: Finalists for all categories have been announced. Check out the links below and vote for your favorites by midnight on Thursday, January 15!
You don’t get a say in who wins the Super Bowl or the Oscars, and besides, those are over a month away. The annual BaT Awards are launching today, and your votes are the only ones that matter! Every January, we like to celebrate the highlights of the previous year on BaT with our annual awards. Of course, we could not do this without the invaluable input of the BaT community, and it’s a treat to see opinions coalesce around your favorite listings, galleries, videos, stories, and personalities. Furthermore, these awards are an opportunity to recognize and reward the people, listings, and stories that impacted us the most in 2025.