Do kids hate cars, and Ferraris?

No, there are plenty of kids and teenagers that love cars. The hobby has gotten out of control expensive, though. All generations of cars are priced way too high and you can no longer get a cool used car in high school or college. Supras, E30s, C3 vettes, etc.

The car video game scene is still strong as are movies with cars (Fast and Furious franchise).

 

I think kids/millenials still like hot cars...but a greater number than past generations may be less interested in them...either due to growing up with social brainwashing guilt about cars "the green generation", or higher priorities in electronics, video games etc for making decision on how to spend their time/money.
It's not just cars. I'd argue there may be less interest in certain sports as well, and possibly musical instruments (unless you consider a DJ table to be an instrument, which I don't).

 

Agree with the stupid DJ craze . It's ridiculous; these people are not musicians, yet they're held up as music gods. Can you tell that I'm a degreed professional musician??!!

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The biggest cultural change in the past 50 years:

If you want to get laid today in College own a Prius and not a sports or muscle car.

True story: Today this morning I saw two buffed out 20 something surfer dudes down by the beach putting their surfboards on top of a Prius. Made me SICK

 

Technically, wouldn't the Prius be the equivalent of the VW van that surfers used to use?

 

No, that would be some kind of cool SUV thingy today.

A Prius would be like a Rambler in 1960s world. The Beach Boys never sang a song about a Rambler!

 

I get a lot of young kids (8 to 12 year old) who love seeing Ferrari's and other exotic cars. I can't believe some of the reactions I get to my F430 when kids see the car (all good). I have even been surprised at the positive reactions I get from 16-18 year old teenagers. But then again, I live in Michigan and the automobile is looked at very favorable due to the culture.

 

hmmm not sure about this Mayor... I think there's no such thing as a 'cool' SUV - they're just the cars they remember their mums dropping them off at school in.

 

In California cars in general today are "uncool" if you're a teen.

 

Not true at all. They make these sport SUV's today like the Rav 4.

That would be the equivalent of a VW bus today.

 

That maybe at outliner ....my 18 old is into cars and all his friends. They still use a wood saw to cut a muffler off a Honda. My daughter who is almost a teen can't wait for her license to drive as well. And she loves sport suv's like the gle 63s, and the Audi sq5 .....

The ones you maybe seeing that are not into cars are the ones that they call "hipsters" , long hair, riding bikes, not clean shaven etc ..... We used to call them homeless in our day

It's about affordability today between insurance, gas, maintence etc ....the well to do kids are very well into cars for the same freedom we had ...to get out ....What they are not into is a Ferrari 355 over an Audi rs3/bmw m2/ Benz c63 ....

 

Kids today know a TON more about Video games than they do about cars.

Just ask one. I bet 90% of all teens today don't know how to open a hood or even care what is under it.

 

LOL!! I see the difference now Bob.

Since you mentioned it, my dads parents had a rambler which he said he had to embarrassly drive around as his first car.

 

My son is 15 and can't wait to get his license. A few of his friends are "into" cars, but most are not. In my experience, most high school students aren't as eager to get their licenses because of the economic hurdles associated with a driver's license. Insurance rates have gone through the roof. Cheap reliable cars aren't as easy to find as when we were teenagers. Also, in Illinois, New drivers under 18 can only have one non-family member under 18 in the car with them during their first year of driving. Illinois also has "Cinderella licenses." Add to this that today's kids have no idea how to work on cars since No Child Left Behind killed auto shop classes. As for the Prius being cool, nope. I've never heard any of my son's friends wish they had a Prius.

 

Exhibit A:

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Exhibit B

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Exhibit C

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Bob, if you don't think things like this happened in the era of Daytona's you are mislead, it did. The difference is there was no video of it back then like today. Many of the old cars got key jobs, rims stolen, knifed tires, stereos stolen With smashed windows. Not sure what your videos have to do with kids not wanting cars or wanting to drive. Stupidity has been around since the beginning of time

 

cost of insurance
penalties for driving infractions.

these two things eat so much money and fun out of it, that its understandable that they have some hesitancy to get into it.

but my kids like cars just fine.

 

My nephew is 17 and is driving around in my old Lexus LS400. He really like the car but would prefer a BMW convertible with a manual trans. He loved the Ferrari Finali Mondiali at Daytona and really likes my 308 and the fact that his dad is dating someone who's father has a 360. Maybe the Ferrari bug has him.

 

Conversely, it stands to reason that most of us on this site are "car guys" and it's plausible that the offspring of car guys are likely to become car people as well. Maybe they're the outliers. My daughter knows more about cars than most kids her age. I doubt that would be the case if I didnt instill that in her by talking about them, going to car shows with her, building models together etc. She knows about as much about cars at the age of 7 as her mother does.

 

2nd video with the McLaren was staged, the McLaren is owned by a rental company, already had a broken windshield, did the video for publicity. Still a sad commentary...,

 

That's nothing new. In the 80s and 90's all kinds of crap happened to my cars. A jerk stood on the hood of my parked corvette (not realizing I was in it), another put a cigarette burn in the paint on its fender. Another loosened most of the lug nuts on my wheels, presumably in a foiled attempt to steal them. My mustang was broken into about 3x, stolen once. And so on....

 

As a 25-year-old, I find myself in a definite minority among my peers when it comes to an interest in cars. A large part of it has to do with social interaction--one used to have to drive somewhere to see and speak to friends/romantic interests. Now, it's all done by phone or computer. There simply is no need for a 16-year-old to have a car, and the immense surge in insurance rates, gas prices, and maintenance costs have made it cost-prohibitive anyways.

Try working on anything made after 2010--chances are you'll need a laptop, a bunch of security bits, and a hoist. It's very difficult for the home mechanic to do more than a brake job or oil change (and even that is becoming less common).

That said, most of my friends to whom I've given a ride in any of my cars have developed an interest in cars thereafter. Perhaps it's a lack of direct exposure.

 

I speak from the under 18 demographic and live and breath Ferrari. The feeling of driving a Ferrari outweighs the thoughts of ruining the planet. I get you claim of kids thinking of cars as old, is true in some cases, especially since the innovation of Tesla, but for me, the desire of one day owning and driving my very own Ferrari, is a catalyst to work hard until I get there. Look at any supercar spotter on Instagram (all around the age of 18) - do you see a Tesla?

What are your thoughts?

 

In Texas, the group that almost never comments on our cars are millennials. The older people (mostly guys) love the cars and stop and ask questions, ask to take pics. And kids say 25 and under and a LOT of them in 10-13 range absolutely LOVE the cars. They pester their moms to pull into gas stations when we're there and we let them sit in them and take pics. And what I've noticed is those young kids know exactly what a GT-R is when the older groups don't.

I should also say that my niece, who is 13, loves our fast cars so it's not limited to the boys either, which is nice.