What's the most popular car in your parking lot?

"Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!" (patrickgruden) 08/27/2015 at 06:27 • Filed to: None

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My parking lot at work got me thinking the other day. What’s the most abundant car in the lot that you frequent? And, what part of the country is this lot? For the lot I most frequent in Philadelphia, it’s the Honda Civic. In a 200 space lot (roughly) there’s at least 12 different Civics that I’ve counted (including mine) All of them are 8th or 9th gen Civics. Second place is the Accord, followed by the F150.

Yes, I am bored and realize stupid things. Just curious if anyone else has taken notice of their parking lots.

traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 06:44

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High School in North Carolina

NPM96 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 06:59

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Mines the Honda Civic and CR-V! Though I work at the Honda dealer

Echo51 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:00

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Walked past this one morning, 3x Corolla E10’s.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:00

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10 cars. 3 of those are diesel Holden cruzes. Not much of a sample size though.

My hovercraft is full of eels > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:26

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AndyG_UK > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:30

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Current shape Fiesta’s are the most common in my car park at work, there’s loads of them (it is the best selling car in the UK at the mo), also there are lots and lots of old shape BMW 1 series, and what seems a distortional number of new Nissan Cashcows (my Abarth 500 is the only one of it’s kind that uses it but there is also a Abarth Punto Supersport).

facw > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:31

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Almost certainly Ford F-150. Not too many of them, but we’ve got pretty good variety here. Least common: brown (or orange? or rust?) 1st-gen Chevy Nova wagon that hasn’t moved in the year in a half I’ve lived here.

AthomSfere > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:34

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Oh, that kind of popular!

I thought by the headline popular as in “gets the most attention” and I was going to say Mine! My FR-s gets all the attentions!

But based on your actual question. Volkswagen Jettas.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:40

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Very close fight between Civic and Accord

pip bip - choose Corrour > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:45

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Commodores & Falcons

Nymphicus Hollandicus > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 07:54

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In the 100(?) car lot I’m in at college, I’ve seen a lot of first-gen Foci (mostly sedans) and 2013-2015 Honda Civics. I have found 2 other pre-facelift Honda Pilots like mine though.

fhrblig > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 08:06

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At our condo complex, there is an abundance of this generation of Tahoe/Suburban/Yukon. There are 4 of them that park at my building alone.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 08:07

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Lots of Kia Optimas, Hyundai Tuscons, GMC Terrains, and a few Cameros. I’ve been seeing more Buick Encores lately, which I don’t fully understand.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 08:09

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Scion xB.... also happens to be the company car for all project managers

Sn210 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 08:19

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There are two S7’s in my office lot. Ok one of them is an A7, and it’s not the most popular, but I don’t see them anywhere else. Kind of interesting to see two every morning

5-Speed Gangsta > traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn 08/27/2015 at 08:21

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This is accurate. Also a lot of jeeps

Master Cylinder > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 08:34

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I would say the most popular vehicle is the Dodge Caravan. But that’s mainly because we have a carpooling program here that provides them for employees’ use. No one is actually spending their own money on Caravans, thankfully.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 08:34

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We have Nissan Leafs in our parking deck. Almost all of them leased.

qbeezy > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 08:57

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It’s a tie between accords and f150s/silverados

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 08:58

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Parking lot at work is probably either Toyota Camry or Chevy Cruze. Although I have counted a total of 6 Miatas including my own (this is out of at least a good 300 or so cars)

Firewrx234 > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/27/2015 at 08:59

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I'm so very jealous

Firewrx234 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:02

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I'd say there's currently a tie between the Silverado/Sierra twins of the last gen, current gen Malibus, and Equinoxes...GM country I suppose. (South side of Indy)

Tripper > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:09

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It’s Merc city in my office parking lot. 4 newish ML550s, 3 identical S550’s (2012-2013), and a bunch of nearly identical, brand new C300’s. Also one lone CLA.

jkm7680 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:12

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There’s three Jettas in my work lot.

mazda616 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:15

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I’m in western Kentucky. Owensboro, to be specific. A town of about 80,000 and where the average median income is $32,000-ish. For a household. Yeah.

Most abundant car, bar none, around here is the W-Body Chevrolet Impala. Some are newer off-lease specials, others are ragged out ex-rental cars bought from shady buy here-pay here lots and in various states of shocking disrepair for their relative newness.

Hardly any loaded LTZ models or SSs. All just plain Jane base as can be. At my work (the largest employer in town besides the hospital), there’s around 20 or 30 of these.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:16

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In my high school lot, probably late 90s, early 00s Tauri. Followed by GM W-Bodies, then 90s RAM 1500s. There's a real lack of anything foreign though, which is surprising.

Keewee > Echo51 08/27/2015 at 09:21

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Those are becoming increasingly rare, nice find. My part of the country is all 500s and Aygos dominating the parking lots.

Edit: Sometimes even the same color

vwbeamer > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:21

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Here in the South East, my parking lot is dominated by Ford 150’s, with Chevy trucks coming in a close second.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:27

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Accord and Civic easily

GTI Sprinks > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:28

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Hm. Money on mostly Hondas and Subarus for my lot.

A few note-worthy standouts: my vw tdi because fuck yeah. coworkers e34 wagon with v8 swap, another coworkers bmw 2002, neighboring office person has a murdered out recent model year m3, an old merc diesel, a gen3 mr2

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > mazda616 08/27/2015 at 09:31

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Damn. But with the average wage that low, what can you really expect?

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/27/2015 at 09:32

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low blow man, low blow.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 08/27/2015 at 09:32

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cause 'Merica. Fuck Yeah.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:33

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We’ve got an odd mix because we do automotive advertising.

The majority drive the brands they work on the most. So we have a high population of Ford/Lincoln/Mercury, Audi, and Subarus.

Mostly FoMoCo and Audi though.

And I’m in Metro Detroit

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 08/27/2015 at 09:34

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That seems like a rather popular choice, actually. So I guess the question is who's buying all those Camrys and Corollas?

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner 08/27/2015 at 09:36

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I would get FoMoCo being in Detroit. Audi is rather odd to me. I just imagine that people in the Midwest don’t even know foreign cars exist.

mazda616 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:39

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What’s weird is there are some big ass houses here. Several neighborhoods where even the smallest house is 4-5 bedrooms. I don’t know where those people are getting their money.

Anyway, some of it balances out since the cost of living here is so low. Our house was only $149k and in a lot of other places, it’d be a $200k or more house.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:40

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Audi’s are quite common around the more affluent areas.

There’s an S7, an A7, Q8, a pile of A4’s a couple A5’s in the lot every day.

I drive Mercury. The 68 Montego for fun and the 07 Milan for DD services.

At my old ad agency that only had FoMoCo I was driving a chevy for 2.5 years, finally switched to a FoMoCo product and BOOM there’s that promotion I’ve been waiting for. A-Holes.

It’s actually pretty funny that we have all 3 major automobile manufacturing countries under one roof. USA, Germany, Japan. (sorry Korea)

Wudstock22 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:49

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I’m right outside Philly, and thanks to the Pep Boys next door, my work lot is typically overrun with early 90s Civics.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:50

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people who don’t work in offices where Opponauts are.. Your sample size here is under 40

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 09:56

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Well, specifically looking at the parking lot for my office, we don’t have a huge number of employees, so not too many duplicates of cars strangely enough. That said, there are four current generation Nissan Sentras (and they all like to park together). Other than that, I don’t really anything duplicate. I’ve got my Crown Vic, there’s a Neon SRT4, an Expedition, a new Jeep Grand Cherokee, a new Ford Explorer, Mercedes C250, Ford C-Max, etc. Strangely enough, there are no Camrys and no Civics.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 08/27/2015 at 09:56

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Good point about sample size. For the most part, I don’t really see too many on my daily commute either. Unless they're holding up traffic in the left lane.

Echo51 > Keewee 08/27/2015 at 10:09

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All the cheap mini cars really gave a push against people keep older cars alive sadly. My own escort is getting rarer and rarer due to them rusting out and being scrapped...

jariten1781 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 10:11

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I did this a year or so ago...at my office the most popular are 3 series (e39 and newer, all conditions from ragged out 90s models to brand new, mostly base engine choices but a couple Ms and 335s around). Second was Jettas.

At my father's office it’s Avalons, but Cadenzas and Azeras are making in roads.

mazda616 > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! 08/27/2015 at 11:10

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Photographic evidence. I am taking a walk around the parking lot during my break today.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > mazda616 08/27/2015 at 11:15

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That just makes me sad. lol