Posted on 04/01/2012 2:26:39 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Study Reveals Most Popular Cars Of Each Major Political Party
Marketing research company Strategic Vision recently completed a study that sought to identify what new vehicles found the most favor with Democrats and Republicans. After 38,000 responses the study revealed some rather interesting results.
The most popular vehicle of those who self identified as members of Republican Party was the not so conservative Ford Mustang Convertible, followed by the Audi A8, Mercedes GL, Ford Expedition and Ford F-150. In fact it seems convertibles are a big hit with members of the Grand Old Party, who were responsible for 69% of convertible sales recorded in the study.
Democratic results were a little more predictable with the Honda Civic Hybrid topping the list, closely followed by the Volvo C30, Nissan Leaf, Acura TSX Wagon, and Ford Fiesta Sedan. Perhaps even more predictably, according to Alexander Edwards who is the president of Strategic Vision, the majority of Civic Hybrid Owners who responded lived in San Francisco and NYC.
As the New York Times points out, the firm weighted certain responses which are likely responsible for the appearance of oddball cars like the TSX wagon and the Audi A8 on the two lists.
Sure, a study that reveals Democrats drive hybrids and Volvos while Republicans prefer trucks and luxury cars might not be unbelievably ground breaking, but the findings are certainly backed up by significant representitives of the two parties. Before President Obama was told he could no longer drive by the Secret Service, a Ford Escape Hybrid sat in the garage next to his Chrysler 300. Mitt Romney has also revealed he splits his driving time between a Chevy truck and a Mustang—which we now have to assume is a convertible.
But in the end, I WILL NOT support the UAW, so I went with a Japanese car instead.
I lament the dearth of AWD performance wagons in the U.S. market. Both Audi and Subie bring over very few these days. Stupid SUVs. I want my performance sport utility sports car!
>>I ended up with a Mustang II.
I’m sorry.
Basically a sport model Pinto. Ouch.
I miss beaterz.com. That would make the Urban Oddities section.
They’re still making new ones at the Subaru plant in Indiana, but selling none of them here.
When brand management goes awry. Stupid, imho. Write them and tell them about it.
I have.
Yep. My dad, bless him, it turned out he was afraid I’d kill myself with a fast car, so that’s what I got.
I might sell the C5 one of these days and get a “pre-Bailout” Z06. I bought the C5 new and did the museum delivery. This was long before the bailout of course. Can you guess what my other car is?
I was a low rider in my youth, and the Chevy Impala was the creme de la creme of vehicles to us. I've got to agree that someone made a total mess of that beautiful car.
me too. 2006 black on black. nicest car I ever owned.
I loved the Chevy Corvair. It was my first car, and despite its tendency to break generators and throw fan belts, I loved that thing.
I always wanted a '67, though. It was the cat's meow of Monzas.
As long as they have Bravo and OWN, they are in Pig Heaven.
Mustang Driver here. Just watched some Car Auctions on Velocity and saw the same y=type of cars that I used to own going for $50,000 and up. Bought my first car, a 55 Chevy, for $100 back in the late 60’s. Liberals just don't get it.
I beat up on my dealership GM and have beaten up at all sorts of folks at Audi of America.
It’s no use, they’ve decided that Americans won’t buy, and they can’t sell, wagons.
Unfortunately, they may be right. Our countrymen are idiots on this point. We who care about lateral g’s are pretty rare. Most just lumber along slowly in the fast lane in their tippy SUVs.
One of the big problems is the extremely high cost of Federal crash and emissions testing for each model variant. Our bloated FedGov screws us in yet another way.
The teleprompters are a nice touch!
It wasn't made in USA. (Think American hating commie.)
You must be right.lol.
I looked at one's engine compartment at an auto show. As much hydraulics as an F-104.
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