Is your car a magnet for police? Depending on the make and model, it could be.
Insurify, an auto insurance comparison site, has released a list of the car brands most often ticketed for speeding based on more than 4.6 million car insurance applications.
Foreign brands dominate the list.
Luxury automaker Infiniti is the most frequently cited, with 8.7% of drivers reporting speeding tickets. Drivers of the discontinued Infiniti G37 models were even higher at 10.7%.
The data shows that Scion, Volkswagen and Subaru were also in the 8% range, well above the national average of 7.1%.
Of the 10 most-ticketed car models, the electric BMW i3 speeds the most, with 17.6% of its drivers having citations on their record.
“All 10 of the worst offenders are either high-performance sporty vehicles or beloved for how fun they are to drive,” Insurify notes. “It may be that speeders are choosing zippy cars with powerful engines — rather than the cars tempting otherwise safe drivers to put the pedal to the metal.”
On the opposite end of the spectrum, the three brands that speed the least are Cadillac (5.4%), Tesla (5%) and Volvo (2.7%).
Car brands with the most speeding tickets (Insurify)
- Infiniti: 8.7%
- Scion: 8.4%
- Volkswagen: 8.3%
- Subaru: 8.0%
- Mazda: 7.7%
- Audi: 7.6%
- KIA: 7.6%
- Honda: 7.5%
- BMW: 7.4%
- Hyundai: 7.4%
- National Average: 7.1%
*Percentage of drivers with speeding tickets on record.
A Rand survey found that roughly 8.6 million Americans are ticketed for speeding each year. Insurify says the average monthly cost of insurance for a driver with a speeding ticket is $123, but it could be much higher based on your driving history.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says speeding was a factor in 29% of traffic deaths in 2020.
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