Is Your Car a Cop Magnet? - Most-ticketed autos

Article doesn't say anything about what kind of tickets...speeding/fix it tickets....

Top 3 on the list are probably the most modified cars in the business. And the AMG models are drivers who can't drive/handle the speed of the car. you don't see any Porchse/BMW M's/Vettes on the list. And then, how in the heck do you get in trouble in a Solara/Matrix? lol......

— Doukas (View Profile)

Posted on 2/7/2009 4:58:28 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

If you look at the vehicles mostly receiving tickets overall, they are all cars smaller than the H2 by sheer volume mostly Toyota's. So Kaner what are these people doing in their cars, Yoga?

— inspirion7 (View Profile)

Posted on 2/8/2009 2:04:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

funny most ticketed vehicles are cars and the least are trucks,

— 1UAW (View Profile)

Posted on 2/8/2009 3:40:31 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

There are several ways to see this. I can think that the BMW is very common If you compare it to Porsche so it is more likely that the Bimmer gets more tickets. Porsche is not common so it won´t have too may tickets. BMW M3 is high speed budget car but still very exclusive. In the other side, If you drive a AMG, most of the time you won´t be bothered for a few tickets cause you can afford those...Almost any AMG is more expensive than any BMW, so they are not common cars as BMWs. Beside that people that use to buy an AMG likes to take the driving course from AMG cause to drive a car like that requieres more expertise to handle it properly than an M3, a light (so light that the M3 and 3 series coupes does not look as good as C on side impact test) car as the M3 is very easy to keep on track, it is a supreme machine for a turning fight (in fact in that category it is THE ONE), but a C63 is more than 400 pounds heavier with all those gatgets that Benz use to put on cars beside the strong security and more power and torque than an M3, so to say "And the AMG models are drivers who can't drive/handle the speed of the car" is a very silLy asumption" unless you do not pay attention to all the variables. There some M3 and also AMG bad drivers drivers that can a for a supreme car but unable to recognize a wheel. Finaly, remeber that M3 and M5 "are not common cars", so it is realy hard to get tickets on those specific machines. I have friend with an M5 equiped with radar, (an excelent driver) with no tickets) Not all the high speed drivers runs unprotected. Have a nice day.

— Yonder7 (View Profile)

Posted on 2/8/2009 10:02:45 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -2   

In STL. Mo you got a cop around every corner sometimes six plus a thousand redlite cameras crime rate from hell. oops im sorry its all about safety not the money.

— vwrules (View Profile)

Posted on 2/8/2009 1:17:54 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

If you look at the vehicles mostly receiving tickets overall, they are all cars smaller than the H2 by sheer volume mostly Toyota's. So Kaner what are these people doing in their cars, Yoga?

— inspirion7 (View Profile)

Posted on 2/8/2009 2:03:49 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

my car is 4 =], but luckily i havent gotten any tickets. my previous car, however, got me 3 tickets in about 4 months. (bmw 745)

— CLK63BlackSeries (View Profile)

Posted on 2/9/2009 12:49:39 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

If I were a cop I would ticket older non sporty cars traveling in at unsafe speeds for the conditions, I would give more leeway to sports cars because they can handle better. Red is also the most ticketed color.

— truckman (View Profile)

Posted on 2/9/2009 2:31:26 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

ever since i have installed my new aftermarket taillights, i noticed a change in cops behavior towards my car when they see it, espeically at night. didnt get pulled over yet, but there were 2 times(at night) when a cop was camping at a spot pull out when they see me and just tailgate me for a minute or so and take the next turn.

— KZ258 (View Profile)

Posted on 2/9/2009 3:33:26 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

This list has to be bogus. There's no way that any of the AMG cars can be on a list like this. There are simply too few of them, and they are typically driven fewer miles then average, to make a list like this. It would mean that most AMG drivers are getting tickets to get anywhere near a top-ten list. The price of the car means the demographic is for older, more conservative drivers who receive fewer tickets on average.
I don't buy it.

— BobW (View Profile)

Posted on 2/9/2009 11:12:24 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Then may be NHTSA is wrong....

— Yonder7 (View Profile)

Posted on 2/10/2009 2:22:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1