OT: Popular Cars by State
Way OT, but it is interesting that the most popular car by state seems to roughly break down by conference lines.
Figures the most popular car for half the SEC is a Camry. I think we should add Kentucky and W.V. to the Big Ten based on this.
February 21st, 2015 at 2:22 PM ^
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February 21st, 2015 at 12:20 PM ^
As the owner of this...all I can say is 'Merica. 
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Drive a Ford truck and wife drives a Jeep, what does that mean? This should be revamped by school!
February 21st, 2015 at 1:26 PM ^
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February 21st, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
I noticed right away when I moved to Oregon, the streets were filled with Subaru Outbacks. Maybe Dodge trucks has recently taken over #1, but that Subarau Outback creeps from Washington down into Oregon for sure.
February 21st, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
Glad this is posted. I immigrated to the US at 6 and honestly feel I am more American than 95% of the people in this country. I've been driving Fords my whole life and aside from a few years with a BMW M-3 convertible at the peak of my bachelor years, I will always drive Fords or other American cars.
I live in DC and I am disgusted by the fact that for every Ford/GM car/truck, I see 8-9 Toyotas and Hondas. All of these government douches living off the backs of American tax payers but not doing their part thanks to this idiotic stigma you find on both coasts that American cars are inferior in quality and in status. Yes, Detroit had a couple of rough decades in the 70s and 80s but American cars are back, yet these douches won't get anywhere near them, and it's become a lasting legacy that goes down generations.
DC should be renamed the District of Corollas, and eff em all. We got 10 inches here today and while all those Corollas and Camries are snow locked, I'm off to blow around and do donuts with my 100% true blue American Ford Escape.
MURRICA! I love you.
February 21st, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
I also immigrated to America when I was 2, and all I'm going to say is buying blindly based on brand loyalty is a disservice to breeding actual competition among automakers which is always a win for consumers.
So stop being a "patriotic" dumbass.
February 21st, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^
Very true point, but it's a little harder here in Michigan where alot of us have family ties in these compainies.
February 21st, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^
I 100% do not care what motivates anyone to buy a car (or anything else for that matter) so I'm not looking to start an argument or debate here, but have you looked at what percentage of an Escape or a Corolla is "American"?
The quick search I did online said a 2013 Escape is 45% domestic with an additional 15% from Mexico while a 2013 Corolla is 75% domestic. Both are assembled in the US.
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Also a valid point, I wasn't trying to say it was that simple and it can easily get a lot more complicated depending how you approach it. I posted that I don't care why someone chooses to buy something and I meant it, it just seemed like a different perspective/apparently new info might be useful to post.
February 21st, 2015 at 6:01 PM ^
I agree with the point you're trying to make, but I think you're off by an order of magnitude there. Ford has about 8,000 employees in Dearborn and so probably 3,000 of them are engineers.
February 21st, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
Everything I read indicates that US manufacturers employee 2.5 to 3 times more employees domestically per car sold than the foreign auto makers. Does "percent domestic" take into account marketing, finance etc. or just who made a particular component?
February 21st, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
Everything I read indicates that US manufacturers employee 2.5 to 3 times more employees domestically per car sold than the foreign auto makers. Does "percent domestic" take into account marketing, finance etc. or just who made a particular component?
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Don't get me wrong. Subies are great cars. But your spouting zealotry, non sense.
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February 21st, 2015 at 6:06 PM ^
All of these government douches living off the backs of American tax payers but not doing their part thanksYou do realize that GM still owes the American taxpayer ~$46B right? How about looking squarely at them and asking GM to do their part?! Of the $6B GM paid pack to the gov't before the rest of the debt was forgiven, a little more than half of that came from TARP funds. So... GM paid back the gov't bailout with more taxpayer money. Last time I checked, the Subarus, Hondas, Toyotas, Mercedes, BMWs, Infinitis, Mitsubishis, Acuras, Nissans, and Volkswagens built in America were all assembled by workers paid in dollars, who in turn pay taxes and contribute to the American economy. Not trying to turn this into a political discussion but you may want to consider by what your definition of an "American" car is these days and what the impact on the economy has been regarding what you consider a domestic versus import make. I think a more accurate definition for you is a union versus non-union assembled vehicle.
February 21st, 2015 at 6:29 PM ^
General Motors has paid back the government. They could have gotten more if they woud have waited longer to get paid back.
Most people do not understand what the job loss total would have been if you would have let GM go. The complete supply chain base would have colapsed. Ford would have filed as well with suppliers going under. Japanesse builders here would have suffered as well. They might compete with each other but they all use the same supply base. I understand the argument for and against helping them, but I think in the end it did more good than bad.
My company makes seat parts for all the players and you need them all in todays world.
February 21st, 2015 at 7:15 PM ^
My post was not an argument for/against helping them. I could give a crap. My point is GM owes this country a lot of money.
The GM payments were "complete" only because the gov't forgave the most of the debt. Of the debt which was paid by GM, some of that came from TARP funds. If you do the math of numbers in the public domain, GM still "owes" the American taxpayer around $46B. Period.
February 21st, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
Sheep forget quickly.
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February 21st, 2015 at 5:05 PM ^
I'd be ashamed of them.
February 22nd, 2015 at 9:51 AM ^
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February 21st, 2015 at 6:05 PM ^
I bought my new in 2000, believe or not I only have 15,000 miles on this "toy" that I only use in the summer with the roof off. As fun as they are, they are not the best vehicle in the winter with the short wheel base. They can slip and slide around.
February 21st, 2015 at 3:57 PM ^
The WTOP traffic reporter was reporting just on the accidents he was currently watching on the traffic cameras. My 4wd Silverado did just fine thank you driving back from Leesburg with a stop at the Udar-Hazy aerospace museum.
The sh**iest cars in the snow by far are, iroically enough, Saabs. My daughter watched 3 slide down hills earlier this winter when some ice and snow hit during the morning commute.
February 21st, 2015 at 7:21 PM ^
I'm surprised Jeep is in no way on this list.
February 21st, 2015 at 8:44 PM ^
1 tons, 2 fords and a dodge. although one is actually a stolen 15 passenger van i converted to 4x4 after i bought it at auction years ago.
diesels are preferred since i can make the fuel here at the farm. 3 of the 4 rigs are diesels + of course the tractors.