Make of Vehicle Can Determine If You Get a Ticket

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Does it matter what kind of car you drive when it comes to getting a ticket? Perhaps it does.

San Francisco-based Quality Planning, a company that validates policyholder information for auto insurers, analyzed moving violations handed out to drivers of various vehicle models in the United States between August 2007 and September 2008.

According to the findings, drivers of the Hummer H2 and H3, with 1.07 tickets per 100,000 miles, were 4.63 times more likely to get a ticket than the average driver. The sporty tC came in a close second at 4.60 times the average.

Based on the study, "ticketability" appears to be related mainly to one or more of these factors: size, speed and driver age.

Also driving into the Top 10 were the Mercedes-Benz CLK63 AMG and CLS63 AMG, both of which produce in the neighborhood of 500 horsepower.

Four cars from Toyota -- the aforementioned Scion tC, the Scion xA and xB and the Matrix, also landed in the top of the rankings.

The Audi A4, a sleek upscale sedan, and the Subaru Outback station wagon also made the Top 10.

Among those being least ticketed were the Jaguar XJ, the Buick Park Avenue, the Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan and the Chevy Suburban and Tahoe SUVs.