Motoring journalist Tony Davis and the Drive team of the Sydney Morning Herald nominated (9 December 2005) the winners of the annual "P76 Awards" . These "proudly take their name from the Leyland P76, a car that was designed to save the struggling Leyland Australia operation but managed to help bring about its end within 15 months of launch."

Dishonourable Mentions

Subaru, Porsche, Jiangling, Audi, Ferrari, Hyundai, the American owners of prestige brands Volvo, Land Rover, Jaguar and Saab, Saab.

The Bronze Awards

• For keeping P-platers safe ... not: The NSW Government
• For half-lighting up our lives: Jaguar
• For failure to avoid a collision-avoidance scandal: Mercedes-Benz
• For high-speed stupidity: Formula One management
• For clutching at straws: Ford
• For dying as it had lived - gracelessly: MG-Rover
• For flat running: BMW
• For becoming the world's biggest basket case: General Motors
• For sprocket science: BMW

The Silver Awards

• For identifying who is buying four-wheel drives: Toyota
  "The new Toyota HiLux's catchcry "Get in or get out of the way" is another illumination of the real target market for 4WDs ..."
• For seizing the Daewoo: Holden
  "Soon after taking over Daewoo in Australia, Holden closed it down. It seemed a wise decision ... Then something odd happened ... the problem was that the little chrome badges didn't say Holden ..."
• For dodgy discount deals: Hyundai and a few motoring journalists
  "Journalists about to file their reports on the crucial all-new 2005 Sonata were offered a half-price deal by Australian boss Bong Gou Lee at the end of a beer and whisky fuelled end-of-launch dinner ..."

And the Winner of the Gold P76 is ...

• For crimes against the state: The NSW Goverment
  
  These awards finish much as they started: with a state government that manages to be at once anti-motorist and anti-public transport user.
  
  When it is not berating motorists for refusing to get out of their cars, the State Government is doing deals with tollway companies to restrict public transport so they have little choice. Indeed, the Government has increasingly engineered things so it benefits from greater car use, as the bonus provisions in the Cross City Tunnel contract make so abundantly clear.
  
  If the idea of agreeing not to expand the woefully inadequate public transport system in areas where there is a tollway isn't loathsome enough, the winning deal over the Cross City Tunnel (that is to say the deal in which everyone was a winner except the end user) included a secret protocol: to close down perfectly serviceable roads and thereby force people to use a tollway they didn't ask for and in many cases didn't need. And if you think the Cross City Tunnel was bad, wait for Lane Cove.
  
  In seven years, Drive can think of no more worthy recipient that our 2005 winner. Honourable members of cabinet, your Gold P76 awaits.