These Cars Get the Most Traffic Tickets

[RockaFowler]

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/these-cars-get-most-traffic-tickets-n214946?cid=sm_tw_20140930_32589706

1. Subaru WRX – 33.6%

2. Pontiac GTO – 32.7%

3. Scion FR-S – 32.6%

4. Toyota Supra – 30.8%

5. Subaru Tribeca – 29.7%

6. Volkswagen Rabbit – 29.6%

7. Mercury Topaz – 28.8%

8. Scion tC – 28.8%

9. Toyota FJ Cruiser – 28.4%

10. Mazda2 – 28.1%

11. Hyundai Veloster – 28.1%

12. Volkswagen GTI – 28.1%

13. Suzuki Reno – 28.1%

14. Scion xA – 27.8%

15. Pontiac G8 – 27.7%

16. MINI Cooper S Countryman – 27.5%

17. Mitsubishi 3000 GT – 27.4%

18. Saturn Aura – 27.1%

19. Infiniti QX56/QX80 – 27.1%

20. Toyota Prius C – 27.0%

[grahamhgreen]

1. Prius C!!! WTF!

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Police seem to have the "Rolling Coal" mentality when it comes to the symbolism of a Prius.

[Glassunion]

3. Based on my experience, the Prius driver

is one of the banes of my existence.

But this is just my experience. It has nothing to do with the car, but the driver.

[snooper2]

5. My mother-in-law knocked 30 bricks off the side of a gas station with one LOL

They are actually stronger than they look

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Most

mother's-in-law are built pretty solid.

[Glassunion]

17. ^^^^ Internet winner of the day!!! ^^^^

[grahamhgreen]

14. Apparently the 'C' drivers are fearsome, lol.

[Duppers]

4. and the Mini Cooper??

What? Perhaps some testosterone driven law enforcement officers consider them wimpy and liberal.

Just saw an article regarding how wingers hate bicyclists for that reason.

[snooper2]

6. half of the cars including the Cooper S are driven by people who think they are in Fast and Furious

[Duppers]

13. good point

They've whipped around me in traffic before.

[Glassunion]

18. No... The Italian Job.

[JVS]

8. Cars with either powerful engines or small bodies tend to be fast.

The Subaru WRX, the Pontiacs on the list, the Saturn, and the VW GTI are probably on that list because they have engines with somewhere around 250 hp.

Another approach is make as small and light a car as possible and put a more moderately powered engine in it. The Mini and Prius C would fall into this group. With the Prius you also get the hybrid system's electric motors helping to generate acceleration.

The Scion FR-S is a bit of an oddity because it isn't actually that fast, but from what I've read it is a very well balanced car that responds well to being driven at speeds higher than the law allows.

The list might as well be called cars that are fun to speed in.

[cbayer]

9. The average for all cars is 19.9 %,

which makes one wonder how statistically significant most of this is.

[gollygee]

10. Here's the bottom of the list

http://www.insurance.com/auto-insurance/vehicle-shopping/cars-that-get-the-most-tickets.html

518 CHEVROLET SPORTVAN 6.6%
519 JAGUAR XJR 6.6%
520 CHRYSLER INTREPID 5.7%
521 LAND ROVER LR4 5.4%
522 DODGE VIPER 5.3%
523 FORD CLUB WAGON 4.8%
524 DCX SPRINTER 3.8%
525 FORD ECOSPORT 1.6%
526 CHEVROLET ORLANDO LS 0.0%

Mine was #267 (Toyota Sienna)

I'll have to check out the Chevrolet Orlando.

[Lugnut]

22. Mine is #323.

I drive a Buick Century.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. what is percent of tickets with respect to how many cars of that type on the road?

[MindPilot]

12. Interesting is what's not there.

Looks like this is a list of sports cars and beaters. The last Topaz was made in '94 and the newest Toyota Supra is an '02. The Infinity, Mitsubishi and Mini Cooper are fun-to-drive-fast cars.

Beyond the obvious fact that people who buy cars like Hyundai Veloster do so because they want to go fast and will get more tickets, I think that the other most frequently group of vehicles on this list are driven by less economically advantaged people and that makes them a police target.

So I do think that this list may be more evidence that driving while Black or Brown will get you pulled over more often.

[Sancho]

15. The Prius c is the smallest on, maybe young drivers...

Parents bought them one but they are still teens?

[bobclark86]

16. So... kids.

Sounds about right. The vast majority of these are owned by kids (mostly poor kids for the Topaz). Cheap and "sporty" (or riced). Even the Prius C is the cheap one ($19K) of the lineup.

Oh, and the dead-last car, the Chevy Orlando, is foreign only, so the one idiot who moved here from Canada with one hasn't gotten pulled over yet.

[RussBLib]

19. but what about the DWB?

Driving While Black?

[Glassunion]

20. I have plenty of experience in that.

It has a lot to do with the model of car.

I drive a base line Bimmer and a Harley and have not had issues. But when I drove an '88 Eldorado and a sport bike different story.

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. What's *not* on this list is interesting. Chevy, Ford, Dodge.

If you don't want to be ticketed, buy a Camaro, Mustang or Challenger.

... or any kind of pickup.

Yeah, in my experience the drivers of the vehicles in the OP are more likely to be driving like jackasses.