bzcat Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 (edited) http://autos.yahoo.com/news/trouble-for-detroit--gen-y%E2%80%99s-favorite-cars-are-foreign.html after reading the comments; price seems to be the common denominator. It is good to see, though, the Focus on the list. I wouldn't put too much stock into this "survey". The #2 brand on the list is Mitsubishi... I think they must have pulled a sample of Evo forum users to complete this survey. Mitsubishi is on life support in the US and haven't been relevant with so called Gen Y buyer at all. Edited July 11, 2011 by bzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANTAUS Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Mitsu is one of those companies that should have died here years ago...Im not sure why they even bother hanging on, then again we have Fiat coming online with substandard unreliable crap so we'll have a brand a masochist like a mitsu-buyer, can aspire to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
630land Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Many may love BMW's, EVO's and WRX's, but can they afford them? With Ford getting younger and/or more well heeled buyers for Focus and Fiesta, with new Escape coming, no wories I think. But, GM, yes, they got worries, since they seem to still have 'oldie appeal' with soft suspensions, dull biege colors, and bland looks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackHorse Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Oh no, Deanh is in on this thread? I'm outta here. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford Jellymoulds Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 (edited) Most Gen Y's in the UK don't own cars & are not one bit interested in ever owning one, my Daughter is a Gen Y & none of her several friends own cars most still live at home with their parents & are happy & content to used their parents cars as taxi's. Most Gen Y's just seem happy and content to waste their money on partying, holidays & general having a good time, none of my daughters friends who hit 30 last year have ever been married. I would have sold my Escort decades ago but my daughter has alway wanted me, told to keep it she likes the generous room & headroom Ford used to give you in the back seats & all her friends think its a very kool looking car as well, something thats very lacking in modern day Fords sold today in the UK (Maybe its about time Ford chucked the inhumane computers out the design room window, and let humans shape cars of the future instead again) youngsters are not switched on by boring dull cars l guess. I am always offering to pay for my daughter to have driving lessons, but she is just not one bit interested in owning or buying a car she thinks they are waste of money but she does like BMW's & all the posh stuff. The few Gen Y's that l work with have owned mainly second hand clapped out Fords then performance cars like Scoobies & Escort RWD RS2000s & now nearly new second hand VW's. Nearly everybody else is over 50 at the company l work for, judging by the age demographics it will end up moving to a cheap operating base in the next 7-10 years like China, as there is no young blood coming through the system. Most Gen Ys are unemployed, some not interested in working & are happy to milk the benefits system for all they can. Those that do drive buy clapped out old bangers & don't bother to tax or insure them. Most Gen Y men are happy to piss all their money up the urinal wall on beer, football & cheap package holidays in Spain, rather than own cars in most urban areas of the UK. Most other Gen Y's known as "Thatchers Generation" in the UK work in lower paid shop jobs or flipping burgers low skilled jobs even though they are much, much better educated than their parents. Can't see much changing in the UK as most of our manufacturing base & industry got shut down or sold off to Johnny Foreigner under Thatcher & moved to China as the English be came the easiest & cheapest in the world to fire, sack & get rid of as Thatchers only goal was to crush every union in the UK. Countries like Germany & France that had some of the strongest unions in the world kept their manufacturing base by making it almost impossible to sack workers & very expensive to do so if you wanted to. All we got left with was a corner shop economy by Thatcher. bLiar & Brown were not much better both racked up massive debt they over maxed out the UK Credit card spent shedloads od money we didnot have, raped our pension schemes of 100's billions & told us tough you gotta retire at 70 (Most companies also enjoyed pension holidays at got away with not paying anything in for a decade in the 90's), they sold all our gold reserves off to vainly look good politically NOW moment in time. Shit has hit the fan the UK now, it has not a lot left to sell of squander the family silvers almost all but gone. So it looks like we will have austerity & pain for decades from now on (Greece has kicked the can very hard down the road now, taken the the easy option looooooooooooooooooooooooooong term 30 years of debt & austerity with Gen Y age length loans, but they will probably be back for another bailout within a year). Edited July 12, 2011 by Ford Jellymoulds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmm55 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 It's like politics. When they are young and don't know better, the are Liberals. When they get a little older, and a lot smarter, they become Conservatives. Same with cars. Young and dumb - imports. It never made sense that kids thought sticking a huge wing on their mom's 4 Civic was cool. But I agree that Ford is doing a better job at least being in the fight. Don't interject politics here........that's for another section in ":Off Topic". Wrong anyway as there are plenty of grandparents driving Camrys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickF1011 Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Wrong anyway as there are plenty of grandparents driving Camrys! Heck, Toyota is even pandering to them in their new Venza ads. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bored of Pisteon Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Heck, Toyota is even pandering to them in their new Venza ads. Because Toyodor is figuring on the only generational segment that could be easily brainwashed into thinking that they are reliable vehicles... due to the cognitive degeneration of critical thinking skills when you reach a certain age (for some of them at least) In Toyodor's view, they figure that most people woke up to their quality gaffes and goof ups as of late but there are still quite a few sheep out there and all Toyodor cares about is getting their money. Nothing more and nothing less. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BORG Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Because Toyodor is figuring on the only generational segment that could be easily brainwashed into thinking that they are reliable vehicles... due to the cognitive degeneration of critical thinking skills when you reach a certain age (for some of them at least) In Toyodor's view, they figure that most people woke up to their quality gaffes and goof ups as of late but there are still quite a few sheep out there and all Toyodor cares about is getting their money. Nothing more and nothing less. Says the man with an LTD in is avatar . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weiweishen Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 http://autos.yahoo.com/news/trouble-for-detroit--gen-y%E2%80%99s-favorite-cars-are-foreign.html after reading the comments; price seems to be the common denominator. It is good to see, though, the Focus on the list. Regardless of Gen Y, X, Z or P, if they can not find a job at the first day they leave their school, they will understand their favorite is very costly. We have 9% unemployment rate. Enjoy gen F. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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