most ticketed vehicles list

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Imp
Many of those top cars look like what rich kids get from their daddies or step daddies...

So the cops figure they can affors to pay the fine.

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
My GF. I swear, she gets at least 50 tickets a year. Always has to go to mandatory classes. Most are parking violations.

You should probably teach her how to drive.

 

[So]

Haha, the only time I've ever been ticketed was driving a friend's outback. This explains why! <shiftyeyes>

 

[TallBill]

Wonder if the Crown Victoria was part of the survey since it's not in production anymore. I've literally been waved at by cops running radar on the side of the road

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: TallBill
Wonder if the Crown Victoria was part of the survey since it's not in production anymore. I've literally been waved at by cops running radar on the side of the road

lol, you were driving a retired unmarked cruiser?

 

[oppie1]

oh good.. i went from 2nd to 3rd...

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: TallBill
Wonder if the Crown Victoria was part of the survey since it's not in production anymore. I've literally been waved at by cops running radar on the side of the road

lol, you were driving a retired unmarked cruiser?

No, it's just a black Crown Vic with a 1.5 foot antennae on the back. Looks like an unmarked tho

 

[keird]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Nyati13

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
The Mazda6 is in strange company at the bottom, there.

I'm surprised at the Subaru Outback making the top 10, the WRX/STi I could see easily, but the station wagon?

Outback can run

Sure I could have tried to run, but my Mom was in the passenger seat. I knew what I was being pulled over for when I saw the cop look at me. $50 ticket.

<---- expired inspection sticker. He got nervous when he gave it to me too. He began citing my extensive history with an expired sticker in 2006 and told me to "take care of my business". I wanted to shove him in a desert, away from his family and make him eat MREs and hot water for a year.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Why don't some of you think this is a good measure? Obviously a model of car that does more miles (collectively) will get more tickets. This is normalised by dividing out the number of miles driven, leaving a value for the number of tickets given that doesn't depend on the number of cars on the road, nor the number of miles driven. This is essentially how likely you are to be pulled over if you're driving one of those cars.

This is not difficult logic, did you guys even go to high school?

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Why don't some of you think this is a good measure? Obviously a model of car that does more miles (collectively) will get more tickets. This is normalised by dividing out the number of miles driven, leaving a value for the number of tickets given that doesn't depend on the number of cars on the road, nor the number of miles driven. This is essentially how likely you are to be pulled over if you're driving one of those cars.

This is not difficult logic, did you guys even go to high school?

There are way more factors involved then that. The biggest one is who is purchasing the car. Clearly people buying Hummers are idiots and can't drive.

 

[yh125d]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
My GF. I swear, she gets at least 50 tickets a year. Always has to go to mandatory classes. Most are parking violations.

You should break her legs



*so she can park handicapped

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Why don't some of you think this is a good measure? Obviously a model of car that does more miles (collectively) will get more tickets. This is normalised by dividing out the number of miles driven, leaving a value for the number of tickets given that doesn't depend on the number of cars on the road, nor the number of miles driven. This is essentially how likely you are to be pulled over if you're driving one of those cars.

This is not difficult logic, did you guys even go to high school?

Not necessarily

A model with more miles collectively won't be as affected by a few bad drivers. A MB CLS63 AMG is extremely rare. You only need one or two bad drivers to throw off the results. The driver also matters a lot. You also have higher volume, but lower mileage cars; that is, they may sell more, but have a lower annual mileage. I'd say look at the Park Avenue. It probably has one of the highest median ages on that list (I.e. likely owned by retirees who don't travel much).

 

[BHeemsoth]

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles

Violations per 100,000 miles driven, expressed as percentage of average

I'm not a math wizard so I don't know if my logic is right but maybe hummers just aren't driven as many 100k miles as other cars. Does that make sense?

Irrelevant.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: TallBill
Wonder if the Crown Victoria was part of the survey since it's not in production anymore. I've literally been waved at by cops running radar on the side of the road

lol, you were driving a retired unmarked cruiser?

No, it's just a black Crown Vic with a 1.5 foot antennae on the back. Looks like an unmarked tho

good cammo... should also do some dark blue decal

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: keird

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: Nyati13

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
The Mazda6 is in strange company at the bottom, there.

I'm surprised at the Subaru Outback making the top 10, the WRX/STi I could see easily, but the station wagon?

Outback can run

Sure I could have tried to run, but my Mom was in the passenger seat. I knew what I was being pulled over for when I saw the cop look at me. $50 ticket.

<---- expired inspection sticker. He got nervous when he gave it to me too. He began citing my extensive history with an expired sticker in 2006 and told me to "take care of my business". I wanted to shove him in a desert, away from his family and make him eat MREs and hot water for a year.

I got pulled for a more bizarre reason. I put the sticker in the wrong corner. Apparently you can only put it in the top right corner. But since there has been many stickers there, I was concerened about it falling off, so I stuck it to top left.

I got a verbal warning after the cop checked everything was in fact in order.

 

[minendo]

Sweet, I'm at 34% on the least ticketed.

 

[mooncancook]

Nice to see my Mazda6 in the least list, and my STi is safe too. I don't speed anyway (relative to the flow of traffic).

 

[Juked07]

Originally posted by: Strk

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Why don't some of you think this is a good measure? Obviously a model of car that does more miles (collectively) will get more tickets. This is normalised by dividing out the number of miles driven, leaving a value for the number of tickets given that doesn't depend on the number of cars on the road, nor the number of miles driven. This is essentially how likely you are to be pulled over if you're driving one of those cars.

This is not difficult logic, did you guys even go to high school?

Not necessarily

A model with more miles collectively won't be as affected by a few bad drivers. A MB CLS63 AMG is extremely rare. You only need one or two bad drivers to throw off the results. The driver also matters a lot. You also have higher volume, but lower mileage cars; that is, they may sell more, but have a lower annual mileage. I'd say look at the Park Avenue. It probably has one of the highest median ages on that list (I.e. likely owned by retirees who don't travel much).

You all have yet to show how mileage has an impact on tickets/mile. That's like saying you can't compare the speed (distance per time) of two objects if you don't observe them for the same distance.

 

[acegazda]

they group the h2 ad h3 together... doesn't make it more likely? Doesn't seem fair, but it probably would have topped the list anyway

 

[Argo]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Sharing the bottom of the list? Buicks, minivans and pickups.

So basically, cops don't want to give tickets to old people, soccer moms, or rednecks?

EDIT: Also this makes me happy that I got a Honda Fit instead of a Scion xD. Virtually the same car, but one has a reputation and the other doesn't.

I think the measure is weird... per 1k mile driven. There are tons of buicks, minivans and pickups that rack up a lot of mileage.

The measure is pretty accurate actually. Hopefully this will make this clear:

There are 10,000 Camry's out there, with total mileage driven 190,000,000. They have 1,900 tickets among all of them. This translates into 1 ticket per 100,000 miles driven.

There are 1,000 Mercedes SLK 63 AMGs out there, with total mileage driven 500,000. They have 50 tickets among them. This translates into 10 tickets per 100,000 miles driven.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Looks like I'm safe.

me too. one minivan and one c2500 p/u.

 

[txrandom]

They need to divide those numbers by the population of each car. You can already tell it's skewed at the bottom because a Jaguar XJ Sedan is the lowest.

Or maybe I'm wrong if they did it like Argo said. But it's still going to be skewed if you have a low population.

 

[shortylickens]

I didnt see my car on the list but it doesnt matter.
I actually obey the traffic laws, which I know everyone considers lame these days but it does keep money in the bank.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
The Mazda6 is in strange company at the bottom, there.

Yep, I thought it would be ticketed more often.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: txrandom
They need to divide those numbers by the population of each car. You can already tell it's skewed at the bottom because a Jaguar XJ Sedan is the lowest.

Or maybe I'm wrong if they did it like Argo said. But it's still going to be skewed if you have a low population.

*Violations per 100,000 miles driven, expressed as percentage of average.

That's even better than basing it on the number of cars.

Edit: Seems like a lot of people aren't getting this, and I agree with GodlessAstronomer's assessment :Q