As collectors and enthusiasts gather for the glitz and glamour of the Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance as part of Monterey Car Week, Edmunds.com has revealed some interesting insights into the day-to-day vehicle choices of America’s wealthiest drivers.

Turns out, most opt for practical over posh.

According to an analysis of January-May 2016 vehicle registration data from Polk, the most popular vehicle for households earning more than $250,000 is the Ford F-150 — consistent with the rest of the car-buying public (i.e. all households earning less than $250,000). Also in the top 10 for both groups are the Honda Accord and the Honda CR-V.

The key differentiator between the wealthiest buyers and the general public is their taste for trucks and SUVs — nine of the top 10 most popular vehicles in the top income bracket are trucks or SUVs, compared to six out of 10 for all buyers.

More than 53 percent of cars registered to the wealthiest Americans are SUVs, compared to just more than 40 percent of all buyers.  

“America’s wealthiest car buyers are all-in on the trend toward bigger vehicles,” said Edmunds.com executive director of industry analysis Jessica Caldwell. “And they’re not just gravitating toward luxury brands — eight of the 10 most popular vehicles among these buyers are non-luxury vehicles. It suggests that affluent buyers are satisfied with the technology, utility and performance that mainstream brands have to offer.”

After the F-150, the nine bestselling cars for buyers in this $250,000-and-over demographic were: Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Wrangler, Lexus RX, BMW X5, Ford Explorer, Toyota Highlander, Honda Pilot, Honda CR-V and Honda Accord.

When Edmunds analysts sorted the list to identify which vehicles had the highest share of buyers who earn more than $250,000, exotics from Jaguar, Audi, Ferrari, Aston Martin and Bentley dominated. Still, purchases of these top 10 vehicles represented only 0.7 percent of the total number of vehicles registered by this group.

“There will always be an interest in and market for high-end exotic vehicles, as this week’s event in Monterey reminds us,” Caldwell said. “But overall, most of the wealthiest Americans look for their vehicles to perform the same kind of functional tasks that everyone else does.”