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Originally Posted by chadwick
You can't infer that warmer states lead to higher failure rates with just this data, can you? You'd need to know the total registrations by state.
CA, NY (not a warm state), TX are the highest population states, so of course there are going the more failures there, as there are simply more cars there. California will show more failures as there is likely a disproporationate number of these cars there in the first place.
People in colder states are also less likely to buy a car like this in the first place.
So while interesting, I'm not sure the failure by state is telling us anything at all, without vehicle registration information, portion of time spent in that state, or time of year of failure.
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Good work on documenting these numbers SFP!
I do agree with the above poster though, 12% of the U.S. population is in CA, 8% is in TX, 6% in Florida and 6% in NY. So we have roughly 32% of the U.S. population in only 4 states. Of these 4 states 3 of them are "hot" states. I think it stands to reason these three states will have more failures than the rest.
Another thing to consider is the fact that generally speaking, sports cars are more prevalent in areas without winter not to mention they accumulate more miles since more of them are driven daily year round. In areas with winter many people park their sports cars during the cold months.