I would have made the Corvette one of the finalists in the Car of the Century selection and Harley Earl as the Designer of the Century. There is no question that the Porsche 911 had a powerful influence on design of sports cars, racers and high-performance cars. But I would have put the Chevrolet Corvette in the top five instead of Porsche. The Corvette embodies modern American automotive design, styling, image, performance and attitudes. It does so much more clearly than does Porsche represent those attributes of the German automobile.
None is among the finalists.