GTP Cool Wall: Coolest Brands and Nations

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I took the liberty to calculate various averages among the results of the hundreds of cars GTPlanet has voted on over the years. Thanks to @GranTurismo916 and @Jahgee1124 for helping with the calculations.


Brand Ratings as of Late August, 2014

America:
Shelby= 1.174
Chevrolet= 0.604
Ford= 0.200
Dodge= 0.198

Japan:
Honda= 0.327

Italy:
Lancia= 1.237
Lamborghini= 1.039
Ferrari= 0.721

Germany:
Mercedes-Benz= 0.597

*construction in progress ahead, detour to cars in general is above to the left*
 
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JMoney689
As of February 28, 2014.

@White & Nerdy If you would like to add this to the results thread, feel free to do so.

I took the liberty to calculate various averages among the results of the hundreds of cars GTPlanet has voted on over the years.

Brand Ratings:

Shelby (3 cars): 1.112
Lancia (4 cars): 1.108
Mercedes-Benz (8 cars): 0.822
Ford, FPV (27 cars): 0.158

...I'll keep working on this later, this will take a while.
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Mind if I help? ;)
 
I'm going to simplify this idea, and hopefully complete it, by giving numbers on brands based on what categories they fall in. Vanilla would be 0, obviously, Cool is 1, SZ is 2, Ice Box is 3, and McQueen is 4 (vice versa for the uncool). It will also be easier to update as new cars are polled this way.
 
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I'm going to simplify this idea, and hopefully complete it, by giving numbers on brands based on what categories they fall in. Vanilla would be 0, obviously, Cool is 1, SZ is 2, Ice Box is 3, and McQueen is 4 (vice versa for the uncool). It will also be easier to update as new cars are polled this way.
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Was just about to request this. 👍 The numbers in the OP are kinda meaningless, I can't remember which categories they correspond with.
 
The way I did it just took too long, entering every number into the calc and dividing. Now I've got a piece of paper with a chart and I'm making tallies.
 
For what it's worth it would probably be even easier with an excel spreadsheet, then you'd be able to add the data and update the calculations automatically. Could also run functions to find whatever group of countries and manufacturers you wanted. Would be kinda cool to see Chevrolet vs. USA average cool or something like that.
 
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Fixing your numbers with Official Cool Wall data, I'll edit them in as I do them

Shelby - 1.174
Lancia - 1.237
Lamborghini - 1.039
Ferrari - 0.721
Mercedes-Benz - 0.597
 
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Since I'm trying to help, can anyone tell me exactly how we're doing this? The earlier version was just get the average of each manufacturer's car numbers. Has it changed?
 
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Since I'm trying to help, can anyone tell me exactly how we're doing this? The earlier version was just get the average of each manufacturer's car numbers. Has it changed?
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I've been taking each individual vote, adding it up and then acting as if it was one post. For example, Ferrari has

289 SZ
213 Cool
42 Meh
102 Uncool
82 SU

Which gives them a 0.721
 
@GranTurismo916 Whoa, that's not how I was doing it at all. I was taking each car's rating based on it's category and taking that as a vote. But admittedly, if we want the best accuracy, @Jahgee1124's method will work the best. It will consolidate all votes each brand ever received. Let's do that.
 
I've got enough to do with the Cool Wall as is, I'd rather not take on anything else. I was simply correcting numbers I thought were incorrect, and helping out you guys with data collection.
 
Make sure you include the Car of Tomorrow in Dodge, Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota's numbers
 
I was thinking of just having "NASCAR" as it's own brand which would also include the Gordon's T-Rex Car. I don't think including it in their numbers would be fair because it wasn't Ford, Dodge, Chevy's, or Toyota's decision to change the car (which turned out to be a very uncool decision.
 
JMoney689
You mean the British Mini and the German Mini?
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Yes. The Mini was a model built by several British companies such as Morris, Austin, Rover and British Leyland. MINI is a marque owned by BMW which offers models such as the Clubman, One, Paceman and Countryman and is based on the intellectual property of the older Mini.

I'm not sure how the threads stand, but for example "Austin Mini" and "MINI Countryman" would not be the same manufacturer/brand/marque/country/whatever.
 
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Yes. The Mini was a model built by several British companies such as Morris, Austin, Rover and British Leyland. MINI is a marque owned by BMW which offers models such as the Clubman, One, Paceman and Countryman and is based on the intellectual property of the older Mini.
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Gotcha.

Some interesting trivia regarding Ford:
-Ford vehicles have received the exact same number of SZ votes as Uncool votes, at 659.
-35 Fords and FPV vehicles have been polled, far more than any other marque.
-GTP users have cast 3,355 votes regarding the coolness of Fords.

Final score: 0.2 (.1997, to be exact)

EDIT: It's actually 0.232; I forgot to factor in the '64-'66 Mustang whose poll data was lost somehow.
 
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