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We don't hear of many contests being held on Facebook, but we've caught wind of a rather interesting one. Mazda is really leveraging the online community with its recent Mazda Design contest where users are competing to design the Mazda3 for the year 2018. That makes it quite a concept car, huh?
At any rate, the contest ran from September 25, to October 12, and gained nearly 300 design submissions from participants. Now that the Mazda design team has picked the top 10 entries for users to vote on, the contest is really getting good. You can vote for your favorite design on Facebook here. The top 5 winners will be chosen in this manner, and these folks will get to work with Mazda for the final sketches, which will be posted for user voting at the end of the month.
The winner's design will be revealed as a concept car at the LA auto show next month, and also get a $1,000 cash prize. Google is also holding design contests for moon rovers, for kids and adults alike.