10 Best-Selling Cars in America's Wealthiest ZIP Codes
8. Palm Beach, Fla., 33480
Average income: $566,000
Top car: Mercedes-Benz E Class
MSRP: $51,365
One ride down Worth Avenue or past the Breakers and Mar-A-Lago is all drivers need to see how this notoriously conservative old-money town spends liberally. The tricked-out E Class is a middle-class car here, with the $95,375 Mercedes-Benz S-Class selling the second-most cars in town and the BMW X5 ($58,595) designated as the SUV of choice for the grocery-getting, child-collecting help of the local gentry.
7. Greenwich, Conn., 06831
Average income: $644,000
Top car: Jeep Wrangler
MSRP: $22,970
Yes, Greenwich has mansions, clubs, sweater vests and hedge fund money, but its love of the Jeep Wrangler suggests there's still some old Greenwich restraint at play. Not simply a plaything tucked away in some McMegaMansion garage, the Wrangler is a direct descendant of the Volvo wagons and wood-sided grocery getters that were once all too familiar here. Greenwich's opulence was once carefully obscured by wood-paneled rec rooms and modestly upmarket family vehicles. This is a town where the moneymakers still make their own trips to the high-end grocery stores and take kids to lacrosse practice. The '90s and 2000s boom years brought in more luxury SUVs such as the No. 2 Lexus RX and No. 3 BMW X5, but a post-crisis culture that frowned on flaunting brought back Greenwich's reserved nature and made the No. 4 Jeep Grand Cherokee ($30,120) a fixture in the Whole Foods(WFM) parking lot.