WheelScore Real specifications, community ratings

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Rate the car you actually live with.

119 cars, each with its published specifications, each rated on three questions that matter: how it drives, how it does the boring jobs, and how often it has let its owner down. 2 ratings so far, every one of them stored without an IP address or an email.

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Rate anonymously in about twenty seconds, or create an account if you want to edit your ratings later.

Volkswagen Golf GTI, model year 2023
Volkswagen Golf · Photograph by Dinkun Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

119

Cars in the catalogue

2

Ratings collected

2

Cars people have rated

3.50/5

Site-wide mean

The prior every car is pulled towards.

Stored server-side: 0 accounts. Never stored: IP addresses, email addresses, names, or anything from a third party. What we hold, and how to erase it.

Three questions, one score

Every rating is three whole numbers from 1 to 5. They are weighted equally, then blended with the site-wide average so that a car with two votes cannot outrank a car with two hundred.

Overall score = weighted mean of the three, shrunk towards the global mean with 5 imaginary votes, then shown out of 10.

Currently on top

Ranked by shrunk overall score, so a car needs real votes to appear here.

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Browse by kind of car

Categories are about the job the car does, not its price.

13 cars Hatchback Compact five-door cars that squeeze maximum space into a minimum footprint. 7 cars Sedan Three-box saloons: quiet, comfortable and still the default long-distance car. 35 cars SUV & Crossover High-riding family transport with a raised seat and a big boot. 12 cars Sports & Coupe Low, loud and built around the person in the driver seat. 21 cars Electric Battery-electric cars: instant torque, no tailpipe, charging instead of filling. 9 cars Pickup Ladder-frame workhorses with an open bed and serious towing ability. 6 cars Off-road 4x4 Two-speed transfer cases, locking diffs and ground clearance you can use. 4 cars MPV & Minivan One-box people movers where the third row is genuinely usable. 7 cars Estate & Wagon Saloon dynamics with a boot that goes on forever. 5 cars Luxury Executive and flagship cars where refinement is the whole point.

Where these numbers come from

Specifications

Manufacturer-published figures for the model year and market stated, rounded for readability. Where a value is not published it is left out rather than estimated.

Scores

Ratings from visitors and account holders, weighted equally across the three criteria and shrunk towards the global mean. Nobody can vote twice on the same car, and no manufacturer can vote at all.

Photographs

Every car picture is a real photograph from Wikimedia Commons, used only under CC0, public domain, CC BY or CC BY-SA, with the photographer and the licence credited under the picture. No manufacturer photography, no stock imagery and no drawings pretending to be photographs.

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