rominl

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it's counted only if the cops are able to stop the cars for tickets

Aron9000

This. Bro's love tearing around in their 15-20 year old Civics, Integras, etc pretending they are fast. Insurance was actually more on a same year Civic Si than it was for my Z28 Camaro back about 8-10 years ago if you can believe that. Despite the Camaro having 200 more horsepower.

Maybe the ricer thing has died down a bit since I first got my license back in 2000 though.

NYKnick101

#20 is probably because people in Prius's drive like dicks. They drive like they own the road because they think they are saving the economy.

And I only say this because my GF drives a Prius and I think she drives like a HUGE *******! No patience for anything/anyone on the road. I rather spend the extra money in gas and drive my self than to drive with a Prius owner

Everytime I see one it has a headlight or a tail light out so thats probably why. Massive amounts of electrical issues. Maybe even because it broke down in a Do Not Park zone and the person cant start it to move it so massive amounts or parking tickets

FrankReynoldsCPA

Entered my car on the link Dave posted. My Fusion is #59.

I got stopped a lot in my Firebird, but never ticketed. Stopped once in my Lexus, no ticket(but some awesome chitchat about guns).

Vh_Supra26

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Lucky you, I get a ticket every time

balMaster

And I'm guessing that some of them were shopping for a cheaper insurance because their current insurance premium went up after getting a ticket.

Also, they did this by driver, not by car.
If you have a Corolla for your daily driver and a Supra for weekend toy.
You get ticket while driving the Corolla.
Then Corolla percentage would go up by 0.00000001% and Supra one would go up by 5% (because it's much rarer)..., even when Supra didn't even get the ticket. (#s are just an example)

bitkahuna

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yeah, not exactly a comprehensive study.

yeah, the stats, while interesting, are irrelevant.

whoster

explains my insurance rates, i guess

geko29

Going on 15 years driving a 3-series, above the speed limit approximately 98% of the time that traffic doesn't prevent it. Never been pulled over, much less ticketed. My friends used to joke that it was because I drive "the rich white man's car", which would be funny if it wasn't kind of sad. Being indistinct colors (currently white, previously silver) probably helps as well.

bagwell

A pricey and older sedan has won a dubious distinction: The Lexus ES 300 is the vehicle that garners the most tickets in the U.S., according to an online insurance-quote aggregator.

Sure, drivers get tickets, not cars, but if a specific model rakes up too many moving violations nationwide, it could become more expensive to insure.

Insurance.com of Foster City, Calif., collected the data as people shopped for car-insurance quotes on the site. It used more than 300,000 submissions between January 2014 and February of this year to rank vehicles by the percentage of drivers who received tickets.

The Lexus ES 300 tops the list with 33% of its drivers getting tickets in that time period. Compare that with the least ticketed car, the Buick Encore, which saw only 3% of its drivers get tickets.

Toyota Motor Corp.’s 7203, -0.82% Lexus division made the Lexus ES 300 between 1992 and 2003, according to Edmunds.com. In its heyday, the car was a relatively affordable, entry-level luxury sedan thought to be reliable and easy to maintain, it said.

The car attracting the second most tickets? The Nissan 350Z, a sporty two-seater sold by Nissan Motor Co. 7201, -0.95% until 2009. Third on the most-ticketed list was also a sports car (the Dodge Charger SE/SXT FCAU, +1.91% ), which made sense to the team at Insurance.com.

That an older Lexus was at the top was a surprise, though, said Les Masterson, a managing editor at Insurance.com. A luxury sedan is usually thought of as a car geared to older drivers with deeper pockets, who would tend to be more cautious. The team has theorized that perhaps the Lexus ES 300, now being sold used, is reaching younger drivers, perhaps even going from parents to offspring with less driving experience.

Insurance gets more expensive after a moving violation, usually as the ticket wipes out good-driving-record discounts that can lower premiums by as much as 25%, depending on specific circumstances and insurance companies, said Masterson. Rates also increase after such tickets, he said. A nick due to a moving violation can remain relevant for insurance purposes for as many as five years.

To work out its rankings, Insurance.com left out vehicles that garnered too few quotes, to make sure the ranking drew from large enough pools — to rule out, for instance, that the proverbial lead foot driving a rare Maserati is skewing results.

A “high number of tickets is not an indicator that a new car will be expensive to insure,” as insurance companies care more about claims, the company says on its website. But if “a particular model is involved in more accidents or is more expensive to repair after a collision, an owner can expect to pay higher rates even if his own record is clean,” although a driver’s driving record is likely to have a greater impact on insurance rates, it says.

“Anything that puts you into a high-risk driver category — a lapse in insurance, bad credit, multiple claims or multiple speeding tickets — will have a more dramatic effect than, say, choosing a Camry over a Corvette. High-risk auto insurance is more expensive than standard and preferred,” it says.



http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the...ica-2016-08-10

Hoovey689

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ES300 or ES300h? Maybe they meant ES350. The article seems to be confused. The picture shows a 2016 ES (350).

Do your homework before you publish something like this @marketwatch.com

bagwell

yep, picture is wrong.....