{"id":3513,"date":"2012-04-02T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2012-12-29T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:04:13","slug":"why-isnt-the-younger-generation-buying-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-isnt-the-younger-generation-buying-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn\u2019t the Younger Generation Buying Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040212_1147_WhyIsnttheY1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3512\" title=\"040212_1147_WhyIsnttheY1.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040212_1147_WhyIsnttheY1.jpg\" width=\"637\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jordan Weissman discusses an emerging trend: the younger generation just doesn&#8217;t seem to be interested in driving. Not only are they buying fewer cars, fewer of them even have licenses. An outline of the problem incudes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Younger people now seem more interested in buying smart phones and gaming consoles rather than cars.<\/li>\n<li>Younger people also prefer living in urban environments where things are at a walking distance.<\/li>\n<li>The younger generation has also been through rough economic times and has learnt to make do without automobiles.<\/li>\n<li>GM has appointed a &#8216;youth emissary&#8217; to remedy this problem.<\/li>\n<li>Chevrolet has started selling colours such as &#8220;techno pink&#8221;, &#8220;lemonade&#8221; and &#8220;denim&#8221; to appeal to a younger market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about whether or not this shift is permanent, how successful the automobile-maker&#8217;s efforts have been, the types of cars that might appeal to the young, and what exactly Millenials are, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/03\/why-dont-young-americans-buy-cars\/255001\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/03\/why-dont-young-americans-buy-cars\/255001\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Weissman discusses an emerging trend: the younger generation just doesn&#8217;t seem to be interested in driving. Not only are they buying fewer cars, fewer of them even have licenses. An outline of the problem incudes: Younger people now seem more interested in buying smart phones and gaming consoles rather than cars. Younger people also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040212_1147_WhyIsnttheY1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3518,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}