About 10.5% of Americans have at least one speeding ticket on their driving record. Not Lincoln drivers, though. The followers of Matthew McConaughey are a chill group. Just 8.78% of them have been ticketed.
On the other hand, Alfa Romeo drivers get ticketed more than owners of any other make of car. A total of 14.91 out of 100 Alfa drivers have at least one speeding ticket. That’s 41.45% higher than average. No other brand comes close.
The numbers come from the data scientists at Insurify, who examined more than 4 million 2021 car insurance applications to get them. Which, come to think of it, may just mean that Alfa drivers are more likely to admit to a speeding ticket. A 2021 Giulia Quadrifoglio, after all, has a Ferrari-engineered V6 under the hood. It’s not a car often bought by the bashful.
The brands most likely to be ticketed:
1. Alfa Romeo – 41.45% more speeding tickets than average
2. Subaru – 20.38% more speeding tickets than average
3. Volkswagen – 17.77% more speeding tickets than average
4. Maserati – 16.20% more speeding tickets than average
5. RAM – 15.74% more speeding tickets than average
We’d like to caution, though, that a measure of which cars receive the most speeding tickets isn’t necessarily a measure of which cars speed the most — just who gets caught.
Last year, Insurify published a study on which models got the most tickets. In that study, the company noted, “Despite the reputation of flashy sports cars like Ferraris and Mustangs flying down the street, the models that had the highest speeding violation rates were primarily sold at a starting retail price below the national average.”
