Flushing,MI

Flushing,MI
Population: 8400

I absolutely could not resist looking at a suburb of Flint. Flint lived and died by General Motors and even today, after the plants closed and jobs left, it's still a GM stronghold. The greater Flint area may have the highest concentration of General Motors products in the world.Instead of counting individual models, it almost makes more sense to count all cars that are not GM cars. Some of the best selling cars in the US are from Japanese companies, but if you lived in any city near Flint and didn't leave the area much, you'd never know it.
Fortunately, many areas haven't suffered as badly as Flint. Take Flushing, for example. This is a middle-class community with quite a few newer housing developments. Many residents are still associated with GM, many of whom are pensioned retirees.General Motors loyalty is still very strong and the results were not surprising.
I ran into an interesting situation, which resulted in a new "strategy". Two models were pretty much tied in a dead heat for the number 2 spot and I wasn't able to decide how to rank them accordingly.I found a solution. Give the number 2 spot to the car that has been in production for a shorter period of time. If a car has been built longer and another is seen in equal amounts, I will factor in that the older model had a few years head start, so the newer model is probably more popular if it has caught up evenly in quantity.
Imports here are a rarity, enough so where deciding which is most popular doesn't really matter.The most-often seen Ford was the F-series, which didn't make the top 5 because it was tied with a much more recent model.The most popular Chryslers are the minivan family and, to a much smaller extent, the Ram.
My advice to anyone going on a roadtrip to Flushing? Make sure you're driving a GM car if you want to "fit in".
The 5 cars believed to be the 5 most common in Flushing are:

1 .Chevrolet full-sized pickup (by an extraordinary margin)
2. Chevrolet Impala
3. Chevrolet Malibu
4. Buick Lesabre
5. Chevrolet Equinox