Welcome back to The Automotive Advantage. Today we reveal the 2025 Automotive Awards that absolutely no one asked for, but everyone will have an opinion about. We break down the best, the worst, and the completely unhinged moments from across the automotive world and crown winners in categories like Car of the Year, Truck of the Year, Top Upfitter, Best Performance Part, Top Media, Best Event, and more. We even pick the Dogs of the Year and talk about the trends that shaped 2025.

Inside this episode we cover
• The car companies that actually moved the industry forward
• Why Ford, Dodge SRT, and Toyota dominated different segments
• Corvette ZR1, GTD, used enthusiast cars, and the rise of the $200K build
• The Slate truck hype and the f 150 as the new Fox Body
• Fox Factory, Singer, RTR, and the future of upfitted vehicles
• Why sim racing and iRacing are becoming real sanctioning bodies
• Influencers vs traditional media and why Bring a Trailer runs the culture
• Power Tour, Roadkill, Dream Cruise and the event boom
• The campaigns that worked and the ones that felt cursed
• HP Tuners, Whipple, and the new performance landscape
• The rise of AI generated chaos in automotive media

Then we give out our picks for moment of the year, person of the year, and the industry low points we hope stay in 2025.

Drop your top ten lists, tell us where we were wrong, and let us know what you are looking forward to in 2026.

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