A brief disclaimer before getting started – the findings we are discussing here don’t necessarily mirror our own thoughts and opinions. Best to get that out of the way now, lest we find ourselves in the firing line! 

Take to social media and you will usually find drivers of two specific brands of cars called out more frequently than any others, where angry cyclists and pedestrians are concerned. Entirely coincidental and circumstantial perhaps, but the results of a new survey conducted by 3Gem nonetheless make for interesting reading.

Specifically, around 2000 motorists were asked a series of questions to gauge (on a rudimentary level) their psychopathic tendencies. Depending on the answers they provided, the motorists were issued a score from 0-18 (no psychopathy) through 19-26 (psychopathy possible) and 27-36 (psychopathy likely).

The average score came out at 6.6, indicating quite comfortably that most motorists are not in fact psychopaths.

But what was particularly interesting is how drivers of BMWs came out with an average score of 12.1. To a degree, indicating double the likelihood of psychopathic tendencies. They were followed in second place by drivers of Audi cars, with an average score of 11.7. 

Perhaps more surprisingly, third place went to drivers of Fiat cars (really?) with a score of 7.0, followed by Mazda and Honda with 6.4 and 6.3 respectively.

Of course, it is worth pointing out that even the top average score at 12.1 is still well within the ‘no psychopathy’ range. Still, an interesting finding some will probably claim to have known all along.

Even more eye-opening was the extent to which vehicle type and even colour apparently had a major impact on a motorist’s respective psychopathy tendencies. For example, drivers of electric cars scored an average a whopping 16.0.  Hybrid drivers came in at just under 10, followed by diesel at 7 and petrol at 5.

People driving cars in gold colours scored an average 12.7, followed by brown car drivers at 12.2.

In addition, the study found that drivers with personalised registration plates had an average psychopathy score of 13.8, while those with normal number plates came out at just 5.3.

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