In the US, using Instagram, chose the most popular car

Legendary Ford Mustang is the most popular first car of Americans. Reports about it MarketWatch with reference to a study conducted by AutoNation based on the analysis of photos on the Instagram social network.

The company selected more than 173 thousand photos with the common hashtag #myfirstcar (“my first car”). As it turned out, the most frequently photographed image shows a Ford Mustang, approximately 17% of the time.

On the second and third places are two models of the Japanese company Honda - Civic and Accord. They scored 15% and 11% respectively. The fourth and fifth line of the rating went to Volkswagen - for the 7% of Americans, the Jetta became the first car, for the 5% the upgraded version of the classic Beetle model.

The Chevrolet Camaro, the main competitor of the Mustang in the segment of the so-called muscle cars (affordable mid-size cars with a higher-powered motor), finished in sixth place, appearing on 5% of photos. Among manufacturers, Honda took the first place, Ford took the second place, and the third Chevrolet, and closed the top five Volkswagen and Nissan.

It is noteworthy that the most popular color of the first car was blue (almost 19% of cases). In the second and third place are red (18,53%) and black (18,50%), followed by white (14,26%).

However, an analysis of the popularity of photographs of the first car among friends of Instagram account owners shows a slightly different picture. The most popular models modestly took places in the middle of the list with 30-35 “likes”, while BMW cars became the clear leader - photos with them collected an average of almost 50 “hearts”. Second place went to Mercedes-Benz (more than 40 “likes”), third place went to Jeep (40)