I knew #1 would be a Dodge Ram even before I clicked and viewed the image.
Stay classy, Dodge drivers.
Truck, truck, rich prick, rich prick…
0 surprises here. Except maybe the wrx, thinking about it, I would have thought it’d be higher than average but not that much higher.
Lots of dudes with chinstrap beards and monster energy drink bumper stickers drive wrx’s. That’s an easy dui target.
Half of them are yank tanks. That checks out. The kind of arsehole who’d buy those cars is the same kind of arsehole that would drive drunk.
The other half are rich pricks. That also checks out. The kind of privileged douche who would buy a BMW is the same kind that thinks they’re above the law.
Are BMWs that expensive in the US? Pretty much every street racer monkey has one in Europe.
In the US BMW’s are imported “luxury” cars from Europe. The monkeys here all drive Dodge Chargers.
The real crazy part here is that the s-10 was discontinued in North America in 2004 and still makes this list? Does that tell us that s-10 drivers are wild or that this data is 20 years old?
That was my thought too. Wonder what the timeframe was because if it’s data collected over multiple years you’d expect to see an overrepresentation of vehicles that were sold through that whole period while models that get discontinued, or launched in that timeframe would be underreported. Also maybe some demographics, like was the high number of S-10 while it was available new and presumably driven by people that recently purchased those new vehicles, or is it 10+ years after it stopped being sold when it’s the old farm shitbox or a young guys first truck.
What I love is that despite the fact that these cars are not all “one type” , and in fact are all driven by VERY different people……
You can picture the stereotype for the driver for each car, and you’re probably right.
Likely 95% male, and you can picture the buffoon each one is likely being driven by. Hell you could probably almost guess the colour of the cars.
The Dodge ram is red and I know the guy who drives it and keeps getting DUIs. I’ve offered to share my Uber with him just so he’s not putting people in danger but he just yells “Yee haw, brother”, fixes his greasy mullet, and hops in.
It is likely a bit of selection bias by cops as well. They target the rich jerks because of the expensive eye catching cars and the truck assholes because they are big and drien bynyokels.
The drunken Camry crew is out there just blending in.
Sure, but it’s mostly selection bias from the other direction.
If I have a need to break the rules and look flashy doing it, I’m not picking the Camry as my car.
If I have masculinity issues and I drink to deal with them because I’m too macho for therapy, I’m not going to drive a minivan.
