Study: Older people prefer Cadillacs, Lincolns and Buicks
By Andrew, 13 Dec, 2011. 0 Comments
2011 Cadillac DTS
The top 10 list of the most popular cars for people who are 65 years and older is dominated by Cadillacs, Lincolns and Buicks. The fact is that if the seniors didn’t support these models, many of them would already have been scrapped. For a large proportion of these models, up to 90% were bought by the older buyers. TrueCar.com compiled these figures after having monitored sales for the last couple of years.
Analyst Jesse Toprak said that there’s a tendency for seniors to continue to patronize the cars they know from when they were a lot younger. A surprising entry on this list is No. 6 Hyundai, which is definitely not an old favorite. However, seniors have come to love it due to its relatively low price that could drop to as low as half of what the others have. Hyundai is also different from the other models on this list as it doesn’t depend much on seniors to survive. The top five cars on this list would be cleaned out without the seniors’ loyalty.
Here's the list, followed by the percentages of each car that are bought by seniors: 1. Lincoln Town Car, 90 percent; 2. Buick Lucerne, 87 percent; 3. Cadillac DTS, 85 percent; 4. Cadillac CTS, 74 percent; 5. Cadillac STS, 71 percent; 6. Hyundai Azera, 25 percent; 7. Chevrolet Impala, 51 percent; 8. Buick LaCrosse, 59 percent; 9. Lincoln MKZ, 54 percent; 10. Toyota Avalon, 54 percent. [source: DetNews]
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