Car Prices and Insurance🚗

Published October 23, 2024

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Jenny Lee

Lead Google Trends Analyst

With Sabrina Elfarra

Top Trends

All Trends US, past day - unless otherwise stated

• The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were the top trending topic on Search in the past day

• “meteor shower” searches rose +200% in the US in the past week

• “cost of birth control pills” searches doubled in the past day

• Searches for “sandwich generation stress” spiked +110% in the past day

• Search interest in Adriana Lima hit a five year high after the Victoria Secret fashion show

Entertainment

• “who is ivy on bold and beautiful” is the top trending “who” question in the US in the past day

• Search interest in Superbad spiked +200% in the US over the past day

• “phantom of the opera silent film” rose +500% in the US over the past day

Lifestyle

• Search interest in Service animal hit its highest ever in 2024

• black sesame chiffon cake was a breakout search in the US over the past 3 months

• Baby Hippo is searched more than Baby Penguin in all but six US states over the past month

Sports

• Search interest in football coach Todd Bowles rose +200% in the US in the past day

• “zay flowers update” searches spiked +750% in the past day

• “what happened to braxton berrios” is the top “what” question in the US in the past day

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Daily Quiz

Which was searched more in the past month?

Car cables or car vacuum?

Car Prices and Insurance

• Search interest in “how much is car insurance” hit an all-time high in 2024 in the US

• “used car market” searches spiked +250% in the past five years in the US

• Car insurance was searched 2x more than home insurance in the US over past month

• “car insurance” is the top searched insurance type in the US over the past month

• Electric cars were searched over 2x more than hybrid cars in the past month in the US

Top “car price” searches

Past month, US

1. Tesla

2. Lucid

3. Slingshot

4. Lotus

5. Tesla Cybertruck

Top “used car” searches

Past month, US

1. Honda Civic

2. Tesla Model 3

3. Honda Accord

4. Mazda CX-5

5. Honda CR-V

Top car insurance questions

Past month, US

1. How much is car insurance per month?

2. What is the main purpose of having auto insurance?

3. What is comprehensive auto insurance?

4. What is liability car insurance coverage?

5. What is the cheapest car insurance?

MAP: used car vs. new car searches are close to evenly split across the US

GRAPH: “how to buy a car” searches hit an all-time high in 2024

Daily Quiz answer

Answer: car vacuum 

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Notes

• Breakout: search terms had a tremendous increase, in some cases  because these terms are new and had few (if any) prior searches

• Top or Most Searched: search terms that rank highest by search volume for a given timeframe and location

• Trending Searches: search terms that had the highest spike in traffic over a given time period as compared with the previous equivalent period 

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