Mercedes-Benz, which dropped into third place behind Audi in 2011 in the three-way German luxury contest, beat its rival for a second straight month with December sales of 163,171 vehicles, a 17% gain, the company said.
Even though the bears in last years contest beat the bulls, none came close to topping the overall market.
She won "The All-American Girl" contest, beating out 1,200 other contestants, and took the train to Hollywood.
In a second round of voting, Meyer-Landrut was chosen as Germany's entry for the 55th Eurovision Song Contest, beating the last remaining contestant, Jennifer Braun.
At age 6, he won a street-fair shooting contest, beating a bunch of men in their 20s and 30s.
The left-winger won a huge landslide with 59.5 per cent of the vote in the first round of the contest, beating Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.
After writing a Page 1 article about the competition to replace Ann Landers, Jeff ended up winning the contest, beating out 12,000 applicants.
Flowbit garnered the largest portion of the more than 2,300 total votes registered for the online contest, beating out the 17 other Big Ideas teams that elected to submit a short project video.
No. 2-seeded Marcelo Rios, one of the players battling with Sampras for the end-of-year No. 1 spot, had an easy second-round contest, beating Todd Woodbridge, 6-0, 6-4.
Unleashing am awesome array of mammoth blasts, he easily won the All-Star home run contest, beating Ken Griffey Jr. in the final round, 9 to 2. Griffey's sore knee will prevent him from playing in the game, but the Cincinnati Reds told him he could defend his contest title.
Her recipe won the American Lamb Chef's Recipe Contest, beating out 130 other top chefs.
