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Subaru is known for its cars having the best safety ratings in America but is getting a reputation for having models in their stable of all-wheel-drive vehicles with the most tickets, and now the most accidents. Subaru has two cars that have the highest rate of at-fault accidents than any car in America. According to a recent report from Insurify, the Subaru Crosstrek compact SUV is involved in more accidents than any car in the US. The national average is 13.64 percent of all models on the road have had at least one prior accident.
Subaru's most-awarded car, the Crosstrek, ranks number one of all car models with a 25.81 percent accident rate.
It’s not surprising the Subaru brand has another car in the top-10 list. The sporty and fast Subaru WRX/STI is number five on the list with an accident rate of 24.9 percent. The Subaru WRX was found recently to be the model with drivers that get the most speeding tickets of any car in America. Neither one is a distinction that Subaru wants to have.
2019 Subaru Crosstrek
Insurify doesn’t break down the year of Crosstrek that gets in the most accidents just the model. Subaru brought the Crosstrek compact all-wheel-drive SUV as a new global model in 2012 and the second-generation Crosstrek model change was launched in 2018. Surprisingly, even though the Crosstrek has the most accidents, Insure says the second-generation 2019 Crosstrek, is one of the least expensive cars to insure at #12 on the list and costs $1,353 per year. Why is Crosstrek cheaper to insure? It is loaded with safety features.
Safety is a core value for Subaru and they are proud of the cars’ safety ratings. Both the 2019 Subaru Crosstrek and sport-tuned WRX have been rated by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) as Top Safety Pick+ and the safest cars in America. Maybe Crosstrek and WRX drivers have a false sense of security and go faster and take more risks because of it?
Cars with most at-fault accidents
The Subaru Crosstrek is number one at 25.81%, the Honda HR-V came in second, at 25.7%. The rest of the worst are the Hyundai Elantra GT (25.58%), the Infiniti Q50 (25.14%), the Subaru WRX (24.9%), the Mazda3 (24.65%), the Acura ILX (24.18%) , the Lexus CT (24.17%), the Chevrolet Trax (23.98%) and the Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (23.92%).
The 2019 Subaru Crosstrek now has the distinction of being the model that has been involved in more at-fault accidents than any other car in America. The Subaru WRX is not far behind its stablemate at number five on the list. Subaru is attracting a younger demographic to their sportier models and could be the reason they have the most accidents.
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I’ve had my Crosstrek, going
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I’ve had my Crosstrek, going on 2 years, and am still amazed at all the safety features for a car at this price. Going on 61, of all the many car and brands I have own, I have to say this is the BEST, of them all. Perheps I am young minded still to own one.
Could be in part that the top
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Could be in part that the top 3 cars have very low HP.
I would "guess" that people
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I would "guess" that people forget that nothing stops on ice like it would in dry. They overdrive because the AWD goes so easily through about anything else.
We had a 2013 Crosstrek for 5
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We had a 2013 Crosstrek for 5 years. While it’s true that the demographic skews young, also that car has a CVT and absolutely no pick up. I wonder how many of those accidents were so to poor drivers assuming they could accelerate more quickly than they can. We sold ours because I didn’t want our teens learning to drive on it for that exact reason.
I had to remove the back
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I had to remove the back seats' headrests in my 2019 Subaru Crosstrek to see better through the narrow height of the back window. I did not notice how bad it was during my test drive.
I think it's several factors
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I think it's several factors but the one people aren't paying attention to is it's widely known Subaru are the safest vehicles out there. People who are not good at driving find that an enticing benefit so it's only natural they have the worst drivers.
Funny how a brand that only
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Funny how a brand that only falls in the middle of the pack for reliability (even lower than Mazda), and has a 'yuge' history of blown head gaskets, should attract such a 'positive' reputation. Though mostly they just remind me of Volvo owners... albeit with less money (lol)!
I just drove my sisters 2016
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I just drove my sisters 2016 crosstrek from Olympia wa to Boise Id . I’ve only driven one vehicle that handled corners worse, and that was a jeep wrangler, the car is too high off the ground with a short wheelbase, very unsteady for highway driving, and , really, how many drivers are going to take this vehicle off road, what that high clearance is made for? This car wants to tip over. It demands constant attention to perform correctly
And the seats are extremely uncomfortable after 5 hours straight, torture after 7.
And no, I am not in my twenties or even thirties