In an era when knee-jerk political polarization poisons discussion of everything from the economy to epidemiology, it’s therapeutic to engage in a completely harmless form of partisanship. I’m talkin’ about Chevrolet vs. Ford. The iconic American brands have been slugging it out for more than a century and despite producing vehicles that are very similar on paper, have amassed loyal and often doggedly opposed fanbases.
Both brands, no surprise, are hugely popular among car collectors. But which has the upper hand? To answer that question or, at the very least, provide fodder for each side to cherry pick in a future comments flame war, we dug into Hagerty data.
Since statistics is far from immune to biased interpretation, and this reporter is about as objective as a Tammany Hall operator—my father owned three Camaros and a Corvette between the time I turned five and when I got my driver’s license—I asked Hagerty senior information analyst James Hewitt to run the numbers. Read more here: www.Hagerty.com