TIME FOR THE 2010 UPDATE:Vibe is now among the 10 'LEAST TICKETED' vehicles!Quote, originally posted by Quality Planning via AUTOBLOG.COM »Those vehicles that Quality Planning classified as "Cautious Vehicles" offered an interesting contrast. With respect to body type, eight of the top ten were either an SUV or minivan. This suggests that carrying passengers, and possibly younger passengers in car seats, makes a noticeable difference in how one drives.Interestingly, 60 percent of SUV drivers in this category were women, whereas for minivans, 51 percent of these drivers were women. In two instances - the Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan and the Buick LaCrosse SUV - the drivers were split 50/50 across gender but differed dramatically in age, with Buick showing 81 percent of ticketed drivers over 60 years old compared with just 8 percent of Silhouette drivers.Table 2: "Cautious Vehicles" (vehicles with lowest percentage of violations)Make Model, Body Style, Violations*, Average Age, % MaleBuick Rainier, SUV, 23%, 61, 71%Mazda Tribute, SUV, 26%, 36, 29%Chevrolet C/K- 3500/2500, Pickup, 26%, 40, 86%Kia Spectra, Sedan, 27%, 40, 44%Buick Lacrosse, SUV, 32%, 65, 50%Saturn Aura Hybrid, Sedan, 37%, 59, 14%Oldsmobile Silhouette, Minivan, 37%, 41, 50%Chevrolet Uplander, Minivan, 38%, 40, 54%Hyundai Tucson, SUV, 38%, 47, 40%Pontiac Vibe, SUV, 39%, 41, 32%*Violations/100,000 miles driven, expressed as percentage of average.Link to full press release and Autoblog article -->
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