I'm happy with the current way. I think the only reason more cars are leaning into cool is simply a natural result of the polls. I've voted plenty of the cars in the cool section as uncool, yet the majority vote wins it, as it should be. There'd perhaps be something wrong if everyone was agreeing on every car, but that's not going to happen.
At the end of the day there are a lot of performance cars going up and petrolheads are more likely to vote performance cars cool. Of course, there are the silent voters too who vote but don't participate in the conversations so even if the conversation in a thread appears to be going one way, the vote may go another.