The California law firm Javaheri & Yahoudai recently conducted a study that ranks which of the countries in the world are the best for car enthusiasts.
The good ol’ USA didn’t rank No. 1 (Canada grabbed the top spot). But it did finish fourth in the study. ‘
According to CarBuzz.com, the ranking criteria were highway speed limit, gas prices, automotive events, insurance costs, maintenance costs and road quality score.
The United States ranked second only behind Italy with its highway speed limits.
Spain had the best road quality score, with the U.S. second and Canada a close third. The study cited the availability of interstate highways for the good score in America.
The U.S. also has the cheapest gas in the world — almost half of other countries.
The USA also ranked high for the number of car shows and its wide variety of car culture, from classics to rat rods to low riders.
Here’s what CarBuzz said about Route 66 and other automotive history:
The Interstate will get you where you’re going, but it’s the scenic routes, like Route 66, that make for the more memorable road trips. These stretches of highway are history lessons on wheels. Along Route 66 you’ll find a chain of charming small towns that echo a long-gone boom period, when the American highways first opened up and introduced us to our not-so-distant neighbors a state or two away. Where many countries have effectively been running the same highway system their first cars ran on, the sprawling, ever-evolving nature of America has created these unique stretches of road that express a greater character than you’ll find along the same old gas stations and copy-paste fast food joints along the Interstate. The USA is also home to many historic automotive sites, including museums, exhibits, and raceways.
The U.S. ranks well with the cost of maintaining their vehicles but middling in terms of insurance costs.
(Image of classic cars in front of the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame and Museum in Pontiac, Illinois, by Chad Horwedel via Flickr)
I just have to ask…why does a small personal injury law firm “conduct” a statistical survey to rank the conditions that support auto enthusiasts around the world? Did they “sponsor” a study by a company that specialized in this sort of analysis, or did this 4 lawyer firm actually “conduct” this themselves? And to what end? It would be no small chore to collect all the data mentioned, in statistically meaningful quantities, from countries all around the globe. And law firms don’t have a reputation for spending 100s of office hours on non-billable work.