The Code on Your Window Sticker Says T3B70. Here Is What It Means.
Every window sticker carries an emissions certification code, and almost nobody can read it. The codes are not arbitrary: one number inside them tells you how clean the car is, and it has been falling.
Theft Cover Rose 32% in Four Years. Liability Rose 10%.
Everyone knows car insurance got more expensive. Splitting the premium into its three parts shows the increase is not spread evenly, and the fastest-growing part is the one that covers what happens to a parked car.
A Large Sedan Has More Cabin Than a Small SUV. And a Third of the Boot.
The reason people moved from sedans to crossovers is usually described as space. Split the measurement into cabin and boot and the sedan wins one half outright — which means the trade was never about room for people.
3,665 People Search for a Charger for Every One on Sale
Everyone knows which cars are popular. Far fewer know which popular cars are actually hard to find, and those are different lists — one is about interest, the other about what happens when you go looking.
Every Land Rover Can Tow. No Mercedes Can.
Towing capability splits the market in a way nothing else does. It is not about size, price or drivetrain — two similarly sized luxury SUVs can sit on opposite sides of the line.
The Nearest Ford Dealer Is 15 Miles Away. The Nearest RAM Is 72.
Counting dealers tells you how many exist. Measuring the gaps between them tells you whether they cover the country or huddle in the same places, and those are very different networks.
Tesla Has 3x More Dealers Than Its Share of the Used Market
A brand's dealer count and its presence on the used market should track each other. For most brands they do. Where they diverge, the gap says something specific about how the brand sells cars.
510 People Asked for a Pre-2010 Window Sticker. None Exists.
The original window sticker is the single best document about how a car was sold. Whether it still exists depends almost entirely on one thing, and it is not the make, the model or the condition.
Brakes Are 4.5% of Complaints on Light Cars and 43% on Heavy Ones
Mass protects the people inside a car. It also has to be stopped, and the complaint record shows exactly where that bill arrives.
Cars Gained 45% in Weight and 29% in Volume. The Rest Is Density.
Everyone knows cars got heavier and everyone assumes it is because they got bigger. Measure both and the size increase only accounts for two-thirds of it. The rest went inside the same volume.
Four Insurance Numbers, Four Directions, One Variable
Ask whether a bigger car costs more to insure and the honest answer is that it depends which part of the premium you mean. The four components move independently, and two of them move in opposite directions.
An Odyssey Carries 7x More per Square Metre Than a Ferrari
Boot figures are quoted in isolation, which rewards vehicles for simply being large. Divide by the space the car takes up on the road and a different set of names comes out on top.