The Subaru brand doesn't just attract drivers who are adventurous and love the outdoors. The Japanese automaker attracts drivers who want to get away from the city fast. The Subaru Outback Wilderness, Forester Wilderness, and Crosstrek Sport are designed for customers with active lifestyles, and those Subaru drivers like to get away from civilization.
A new report from Insurify identified the top five car brands with the most speeding tickets in 2022. We reached out to Insurify because Subaru wasn't in the top five, but they did come in as the sixth car brand with the most speeding tickets this year.
The five car brands with the most speeding tickets are unique, and some are not what you would expect. Scion holds the top spot 11.05 percent of drivers have a speeding ticket this year. Infiniti is next (10.75%), Volkswagen (10.66%), Saab (10.42%), and Audi 10.02% round out the top five.
Insurify told us, "Our data shows that 9.98 percent of Subaru drivers have a speeding ticket in 2022. That's 6th in the nation and 7 percent greater than the national average."
Last year, Insurify identified the top ten car models with the most speeding tickets, and Subaru had three vehicles on the list. It's no surprise that the Subaru WRX and WRX STI came in at number one for the third year. The WRX and STI attract a performance buyer in the 25-35-year-old age range who likes to drive fast.
The Subaru BRZ sports coupe was number five, and the Subaru Impreza was number nine in 2021.
Insurify says the national average in 2022 is 9.36 percent of drivers who have a speeding violation. Among the car brands with the highest speeding rates, the average share of drivers with a speeding ticket is 10.59 percent, or 13 percent higher than the national average.
Which car brand speeds the least? Insurify says drivers of Fiat cars are the most law-abiding motorists when it comes to vehicle speed. Just 7.09 percent of Fiat drivers have a speeding ticket on record, a share that's 24 percent lower than the national average.
"Fiat cars are not exactly performance vehicles, and their drivers have no issue keeping them under control on the road," says Insurify.
If you see a Subaru Forester, Outback, or Crosstrek driver exceeding the speed limit, they want to get away from the city and explore the outdoors as soon as they can. Subaru WRX and BRZ drivers bought their vehicle because it was designed for speed and performance.
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As the urban legend goes, those driving vehicles painted red tend to receive the most speeding tickets. Though that myth has long since been busted (white cars are actually more often cited), statistics show that some vehicles are more inherently prone to getting their owners busted for exceeding the posted limit than others.
As one might imagine, most of the top 10 models in this regard—based on data compiled by the insurance website Insurify.com—are higher-performance models that practically beg to be driven fast and furious. On the other hand, two of them would be considered relatively serene rides, including one full-size pickup truck. We’re featuring Insurify.com’s list of the 10 biggest ticket magnets below.
Oddly enough, among the 393 car models the site’s statisticians studied, all of the top speed-trap specials are relatively affordable rides. It seems the quickest and costliest exotic sports cars sell in relatively puny numbers and are only driven when the opportunity and conditions prevail, so they’re statistically outclassed here by more robust sellers. We’d also suspect most who are fortunate enough to own a Ferrari or Lamborghini realize they’re driving a car with a proverbial bull’s eye painted on its tail, and tend to take it easy over anything but wide-open roads and/or owns a top-of-the-line radar detector.
In fact, three of the top ten most-ticketed vehicles come from Subaru, a brand that’s more commonly known for selling safe and sound all-wheel drive models made for the Snow Belt. Still, two of the three are higher-performance models, with the rally-race-ready Subaru WRX that packs as much as 310 horsepower leading the pack. But then the list also includes Subaru’s Impreza compact sedan/hatchback, which is a model not otherwise known for being especially speedy.
Among the 10 most cited models, 16.14 percent of their owners were found to have at least one violation for speeding on their records. That’s 40 percent higher than the national average at 9.59 percent of motorists with at least one speeding ticket on their records.
Keep in mind that it’s not cheap to be handed a speeding ticket. Not only does this involve a fine that could be as rich as several hundred dollars (plus court costs and legal fees, if imposed), getting a violation could boost one’s auto insurance premiums by as much as 25 percent or more, depending on the insurer and state in which the ticket was written.
That’s because one of the most important actuarial factors that determines auto insurance rates is a motorist’s driving record. Providers treat those who have been issued moving violations or gotten into at-fault accidents as being more prone to get into crashes charge higher rates to cover the added risk.
If that happens to you, it pays—literally—to shop around among multiple carriers to find one that’s willing to accept higher risk drivers than others, and as such may charge them less for coverage than others. If you can’t otherwise find a better deal, you can also trim your insurance premiums by taking a defensive driving course to help show you’ve seen the error of your lead-footed ways. You can also shave a few bucks off your bill by making sure you receive all the discounts to which you’re entitled, paying premiums annually instead of monthly, and dropping relatively superfluous coverage, like that for towing and roadside assistance.
At any rate, here are the 10 vehicles that are most likely to draw a speeding ticket, and the percentage of their owners who’ve been cited:
- Subaru WRX (18.8%)
- Hyundai Genesis Coupe (17.72)
- Kia Stinger (16.58)
- Mazda3 (16.36)
- Subaru BRZ (16.21)
- Scion FR-S (16.01)
- GMC Sierra 1500 (15.31%)
- Volkswagen GTI (14.95%)
- Subaru Impreza (14.81%)
- Hyundai Veloster (14.65%)
Source: Insurify.com. You can read the full report here.
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In a study released recently, , a firm that compiles risk data for use in calculating automobile insurance, put together a list of the cars that are most likely to be pulled over and ticketed on American roads. As it turns out, QPC’s findings indicate that the personality of the driver has more to do with the frequency of being ticketed than the car itself. QPC suggests that people driving cars to express their individuality will be ticketed more than drivers who have selected a vehicle simply t
The car that you drive probably won't get you pulled over by the cops, even if it's red. It's they way you drive it. But certain drivers may be attracted to the cars that get stopped the most.
In a study released this week, online insurance information provider Insurance.com put together a list of the cars that had been pulled over in the past three years.
"It's not about horsepower," Managing Editor Des Toups said. "The Chevrolet Corvette, Dodge Viper and Nissan GT-R rank well below average for tickets even though they can easily double the highest speed limits. But those cars are also costly, so their buyers tend to be older and take fewer risks."
To compile its list, Insurance.com looked at data from 526 models and analyzed online quote information submitted by 557,238 drivers from Jan. 1, 2013, to July 2014. They included any driver who had some kind of traffic violation in the last three years.
So, what are the most ticketed cars in the U.S.? The answers may surprise you!
—By CNBC staff
Posted Oct. 1, 2014
What is now called the Mazda Demio was once the Mazda2, but it appears a lot of people are still driving around in the old versions, and 28.1 percent of those drivers have some kind of ticket on their records in the last three years.
This discontinued SUV still has a few fans—and 28.4 percent of them have been accused of breaking a traffic law.
Scion is the most ticketed brand overall on Insurance.com's longer top 20 list, and 28.8 percent of Scion tC drivers have received tickets.
Despite the fact that this car has long been discontinued, 28.8 percent of Mercury Topaz driver have had some kind of driving violation on their records.
What became the Volkswagen Golf was once called the Rabbit, but 29.6 percent of those driving the original Rabbit are still hopping into police traps.
Subaru is another well represented brand on this list, and 29.7 percent of those who drive the Tribeca SUV have relatively recent driving violations on their records.
Another defunct model that seems to still attract risk-takers and speed demons, 30.8 percent of Supra drivers have some kind of blemish on their recent records.
Rounding out the bottom of the top three, 32.6 percent of Scion FR-S drivers have tickets.
The fact that the entire Pontiac brand has vanished does not stop people from loving the mythic muscle car, and breaking laws in it—32.7 percent of GTO drivers have gotten nailed by police.
The compact and fast WRX tops out the list—33.6 percent of it's drivers have some kind of driving violation in their recent histories.
"Cars don't get tickets, drivers do – but those drivers like the WRX," Toups said.