Ouch!

From the Motortrend website....

Motor Trend

THOUSANDS of new registration cars rolled out of dealerships yesterday, but by the end of the day, 600 were smashed up - with Porsches topping the crash list - according to research.

A report by Churchill Car Insurance said 600 new cars crash on the first day and 3,240 within a week.

Luxury sports cars are most likely to be involved in a collision with Porsche drivers the most unlucky.




This is because the speedy German sports car, with its rear engine, can be hard to control for inexperienced drivers.



Churchill reckons pounds 8.1m of cars are damaged on day one, rising to pounds 43.7m by the end of the first week.



The study also followed new cars' first two years of motoring and showed that, after just a month, 13,400 had already been in the body shop for repairs.



After a year, 135,000 of these cars had been in an accident, rising to more than a quarter of a million after two years



(C) 2005 Liverpool Echo

 

wow, this is in fact some very interesting but sad statistic....

i can understand about the porsche though. the rear of the car is so heavy you need to relearn driving a bit

 

It would be interesting if the study reported the amount of damage dollar wise these cars experienced. When my first new car (Back in 1990) was only 4 months old, someone put a dent in my rear 1/4 panel (Hit and run in a parking lot). It cost about $1200, but no doubt my car is still a statistic. When I worked at a dealer back in the early 90s, I say many newer cars come back in with a few scratches on the bumper. The dealer sends it to the body shop for a repaint and that too becomes a statistic. My 04 RX330 has a very light door ding on my rear fender lip. I guess I could have sent it in to a body shop to get fixed and I would again be a statistic, but I decided not to and live with it. What I'm saying is I wonder how much of those cars ended up in the body shop are from somewhat major crashes or if the majority are from minor dings and dents?

 

600 new cars get smashed every day?

WTF

is this a world wide tally or north american or just USA?

 

I can believe it. I'm in insurance claims. I see new cars with no plates come in on a daily basis. And this is just for one adjuster out of the hundreds we have here at my company.

 

i say it's the US? seriously though, if you think about it, you are really more likely to have accidents when the car is brand new, coz' you still don't know the car 100%. you not sure about blind spot, turning circle, brake, etc... compared to a car you have driven for 5 yrs

 

Its is sad. When you see a new model car with only a few hundered miles being sold as used I sometime wonder if it was due to a mishap. It would also be interesting to know what age group had the most crashes and what city / states lead the crash list for new cars.