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Originally Posted by campy
Those numbers are probably smudged by younger drivers buying Scions under their parents' names.
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Actually the numbers are most likely pretty dead on if you are talking about buyers (or technically registered car owners) not drivers.
The issue is that there are a lot more people in the population over 30 than under and for the average to be lower you have to have a very high ratio of under 30 buying to lower the number.
Simple example, if you assume that the earliest age a person buys a car (not given one) is 18, and the oldest person to buy a car is 70, and every age in between buys the cars in equal numbers (one per year of age) then the average car buying age is 44.
To raise it, only one person over the age of 44 has to buy a car.
To lower it, for every person over the age of 44 that buys a car more than 1 person under 44 would have to buy one. (if it's one to one the average stays the same).