If you are looking to buy a new car, then don't move a muscle until you have read the March issue of CAR Magazine – on sale February 18. In it, we reveal the Top 12 Best Buys for 2008 (brought to you in partnership with Nedbank Vehicle and Asset Finance) in conjunction with the inaugural CAR Awards, which recognises excellence in South African motor industry.

We also recently offered an online Top 12 competition, in which we gave away prizes worth over R24 000 prizes to those who correctly predicted the CAR editors' choices in each of the categories and the reader who made the most correct predictions out of 12. Here are all the category winners on the 2008 honours roll, and where the public's predictions were different to those of the editors, the online picks.