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Originally Posted by pfaffendorn
Well, certainly Millenials are learning the difference between how we elders bought cars at dealerships and how to save money on a newish car more or less outside the system. But from what I hear, Milleniums aren't much excited about buying cars anyway, as long as somebody in their group has one (our two-seaters mostly don't count).
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In broad generalities it's not that cars are uninteresting to my generation, they're about as interesting as they were to any other generation. Before there were computer nerds there were book worms, playing chess by mail and people felt comfortable walking or biking the streets at night. There's no hidden cultural shift for you to uncover watching kids play video games with other kids from Russia (it's just DnD where a computer rolls the dice) it's that cars (and most importantly to this conversation: new cars as there is no data on old car sales) are a luxury many cannot afford. Too many articles and studies and simple maths you can do yourself to see that there is less opportunity now then there was 50, 25, or even 10 years ago.
It's a trend that's been happening since before the early 90's crash that screwed over Gen X. If we had a booming economy and youths gainfully employed those 'average car buyer age' numbers would plummet.