BMW 7 Series drivers the worst offenders
ABritish car quote comparison website has come up with some interesting (UK-centric) stats showing that owners of more expensive cars have more convictions for motoring offences.
Analysis of more than six million car insurance quotes by the MoneySuperMarket website, has revealed that owners of expensive, fast cars are up to 20 times more likely than those with older, more modest cars to break UK road rules. Well, duh.
The single worst offenders? Drivers of BMW 730ds. More than a fifth (21 per cent) of 7 Series owners who applied for insurance quotes admitted to receiving some form of motoring conviction over the past five years, according to a report published by the website.
The next worst offenders in the UK are Porsche Panamera owners, with a conviction rate of 20 per cent.
The data suggests it’s best to have a wheezy older vehicle if you want to avoid any sort of conviction for motoring offences. The same report states that Citroen ZX owners are the most law-abiding on British roads, with only 1 per cent having been convicted in the last five years. Of course, whether this has anything to do with the nodoubt fragile state of surviving Citroen ZXs a good 20 years after they went out of production, isn’t mentioned.
With this sort of data available to the public, it’s no wonder the New Zealand Government is continually scouting around for replacements for its fleet of Beemer luxo-barges.