Buying or leasing a car for many people isn't always based on logic or such factors as mileage or repair records.
Choosing a vehicle just may be a matter of picking out the hottest sports car or the truck with the biggest engine.
However you make the choice, one factor to keep in mind is the number of tickets that a particular model tends to get. Insurers generally take into account a driver's habits when assessing risk and premiums. Those habits include how many moving violations the driver has accumulated, and certain vehicles as well as drivers tend to accumulate more than others.
According to a recent study from Insurance.com, although the number of tickets a driver accumulates has an effect on insurance rates, so too does the cost of claims for a particular model car. Drivers and car owners can use Insurance.com's "Ticket Magnet" tool to analyze how many tickets their car make or model receives based on more than 323,000 insurance quotes for drivers who use the site.
The analysts at Your Mechanic examined the data from Insurance.com more closely to determine whether the type of car makes a difference in the number of tickets it received. When they segmented the models into luxury cars, midsize, compact, sports cars, pickup trucks, SUVs and subcompact cars, they found some interesting data on what types of drivers are typically getting the most tickets.
We recently told you about the 10 most ticketed cars by model and percent of vehicle owners. Here are the 10 least ticketed cars by model and percent of vehicle owners, based on the data analysis from Your Mechanic. Note that there are no dates or date ranges provided with the results. They only reflect information from a driver who provides information to the Ticket Magnet tool.
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10. Land Rover and Range Rover — 10.9 percent of vehicle owners
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9. BMW 320i — 9.9 percent of vehicle owners
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8. Audi A3 2 Series — 9.2 percent of vehicle owners
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7. GMC Savana — 8.8 percent of vehicle owners
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6. Cadillac Escalade — 8.1 percent of vehicle owners
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5. Chevrolet Express — 7.7 percent of vehicle owners
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4. Cadillac ATS — 6.2 percent of vehicle owners
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2. Lexus IS350 — 3.4 percent of vehicle owners
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1. Buick Encore — 3.2 percent of vehicle owners
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