Are you 15 years old or less? Do you like cars? Are you imaginative? Can you draw or paint? If the answer to all of these questions is ‘yes’ then why not consider entering the Toyota annual dream car art contest?

The Toyota annual dream car art contest is now in its sixth year and it has some fantastic prizes including all-expenses paid trip to Japan for the winner and two of his or her family members.
You will need to imagine and draw your ultimate car of the future, and that car can be anything you like. It could be a supersonic car, a flying car, a racing car, a super-luxury car, a car that runs off grass, whatever you might be able to dream up.

You can use what ever form of drawing or painting you wish, crayons, pencils, water colours, poster-paints, whatever you like. All entries need to have been submitted by the deadline which is 31 January 2012 so there is lots of time left for you to create your masterpiece.

Don’t worry about having to compete with older children. The competition entries will be judged in three categories: under 10 years old; 10-12 years old; and 13-15 years old.
Winners will be selected from every country that is represented in the competition (there are 80 of them) and then the judging panel will pick the overall winner from those. The National winners will be revealed in February 2012 and the global winner will be announced in June 2012.

The award ceremony will be held in Japan in August 2012. There awards are: gold award; silver award; bronze award; finalist award (for every national finalist); and a special award. The winner of the special award will be chosen personally by Akio Toyoda who is the president of Toyota.
Last year there were 120,000 entries from 50 countries.