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I don't remember seeing the teal green 2017 Mustang before yesterday and already it has 1000+ votes. Makes me wonder if the Russians are hacking in and skewing the results.
And even if not, some of those other high-vote cars are so rough I can't believe they've received legitimate votes.
I was over on the Sting Ray forum and here's what one of the guys said over there ...
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Everyone - thank-you for your votes...unfortunately - there is some cheating going on ( I was also approached by this company to add votes to my total ) - so I'm out. It was a fun thing to try - thanks again!
Sad that there are companies offering to add votes (there are also votebots which any kid with a computer can get and use, and proxy anonymizers for the person with lots of time and a quality mouse). And sadder still that a participant pulled out because of what he sees happening with the voting
If anyone does use these services I wonder how they live with themselves, or how they can face friends, family, coworkers and customers that they've likely asked to vote for them, and when those people walk up to them to say congratulations, they have to somehow smile and look proud of their accomplishment.
As for the AutoShow and Legendary Motorcar Company, if they don't fix things, they're going to be stuck trailering in 5 modern Mustangs, 2 modern vettes and an older Trans-Am (but nothing older than '77) and displaying them as being the cars with the greatest "WOW factor". I know that none of the cars in the current top 8 would make me cross the road for a better look - let alone travel to the AutoShow. I'd definitely go if there was a Pantera (biased), and likely go for the Koenigsegg, the F-40, even the Studebaker Commander (hey, even the vette that's bondo and primer would elicit smiles from show visitors as would the '60 mustangs & vettes), but if I wanted to see a 2017 Mustang I'd go to a dealership or visit the Ford display at the show - and as for the next 7 cars in the list, nope, nothing, no emotion, might as well be a cluster of mid-90's Tauruses.
Here are the tallies today (@2:20 this afternoon), like the Mustang Mark spotted the other day, today there is a vette that wasn't on the list yesterday, and he was adding votes like there's no tomorrow (from 10:45-11:45am this morning, he added over 800 votes, and as of 12:40pm, he's was first place with over 3700 votes and a lead of about 500 votes). He must have a lot of friends on social media, or a significant e-mail list to get that kind of result so quickly although once he got well into first place, the voting has dried up to one or two in the last hour.
Be all that as it may, we should still vote for Will and Dave on the chance that the AutoShow flushes out any contestants that bent the rules.
in fact, I'm thinking of a 'bigly' joke right now. 
