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These are American senior citizens' favorite cars
Auto Blog ^ | December 15, 2011 | Dan Roth

Posted on 12/15/2011 3:27:26 PM PST by decimon

The stereotype of elderly drivers preferring Lincolns and Buicks has to come from somewhere. TrueCar.com took a look at the past two years of car sales to buyers at least 65 years old and found a couple common threads. The first thing these buyers are looking for is familiarity. The nameplates and vehicle types that were popular when these buyers were younger rank high with senior buyers, kind of the same way people's musical preferences get frozen in time.

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To: decimon

I’m a senior,my friends are seniors,and we all drive Hondas or Toyotas,with one Saab thrown in.

Maybe it’s a regional thing.

The stereotyping “turn-signal” attempt at humor was unnecessary.


21 posted on 12/15/2011 4:04:27 PM PST by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: traditional1

Bucks are known to stop in all Rotary intersections.


22 posted on 12/15/2011 4:04:51 PM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: Huntress
And Me, for one (who you calling Old!?!)...

My daughter used to laugh at my "Cop Car" until she had to borrow it for a few days. She returned it with a whole new point of view: Roomy, comfortable, and POWERFUL!!!

ARRRRR!!!!

23 posted on 12/15/2011 4:06:21 PM PST by Dubh_Ghlase (Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
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To: decimon
Any large car with a target sight as a hood ornament. It helps to keep them in the middle of the lane when they're driving to the early bird dinners.

-PJ

24 posted on 12/15/2011 4:06:47 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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To: decimon
No Oldsmobile? (I know, I know!)
25 posted on 12/15/2011 4:08:17 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: decimon

Took my BOSS 302 Mustang out. Got beat by an old guy in a scooter chair. We were racing for pinks. Stupid JATOs.


26 posted on 12/15/2011 4:08:47 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: UB355

Correction Buicks


27 posted on 12/15/2011 4:10:04 PM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: decimon

My mom needed a new vehicle. She’s almost 80. I found her a used Chevy Tahoe. Safer than a car, easy to handle, easy to see out of, and she loves it.


28 posted on 12/15/2011 4:11:01 PM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: decimon

Well, I’m only 61 but I drive an Audi wagon, 6 cyl, 5 valve. I love getting next to a young punk in a Honda with a phart can exhaust on their mower with doors. Teaches ‘em to buy a real car. :-)


29 posted on 12/15/2011 4:12:01 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: decimon

Another thing about these models is that in near empty parking lots they always park a foot and a half next to an already parked car’s driver side.


30 posted on 12/15/2011 4:12:01 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: decimon

This grampy drives a fourth generation 2005 VW Saveiro pickup with the optional 1.8 L DPI injection engine, 5 speed, black, slightly lowered, tinted windows, alloy wheels and overwidth tires. FUN! :)


31 posted on 12/15/2011 4:13:15 PM PST by WellyP (REAL)
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To: Mears

I see a lot of knocks on the older generation. Actually it really is part of Alinsky’s plan. Get people separated into to groups and start crap. It’s the same as the race card, class warfare, feminism etc. United we stand, divided we fall is true.


32 posted on 12/15/2011 4:16:00 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Revolting cat!
and steering wheels which automatically take the vehicles to the passing lane at 40MPH!

I stay out of the passing lane. I am almost 60 and hate the fast lane. Why do people get in that lane and have another 2000 lb+ vehicle hurtling past at 55, 65, 70 or more?

33 posted on 12/15/2011 4:24:54 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: WellyP
Now at age 70 you should see the heads turn down here in southern Utah as I drive my 74 KG.

I tell all the young ladies that it's my "pick up" truck. Dear wife drives the Pacifica by Chrysler/Mercedes. Can't stand driving with her as she thinks 75 on the freeway in the left lane is her right and she never moves over unless the guy sitting in the passenger seat starts screaming.


34 posted on 12/15/2011 4:25:03 PM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where INVITED Freepers will meet again next summer. Jim Robinson Too)
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To: decimon

“The first thing these buyers are looking for is familiarity. The nameplates and vehicle types that were popular when these buyers were younger rank high with senior buyers”

But weren’t these guys driving Volkswagens and Datsuns back in the seventies?


35 posted on 12/15/2011 4:25:15 PM PST by running_dog_lackey
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To: blueunicorn6
Took my BOSS 302 Mustang out. Got beat by an old guy in a scooter chair. We were racing for pinks. Stupid JATOs.

Do you know what wine feels like passing suddenly and forcefully through sinuses?

36 posted on 12/15/2011 4:27:27 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Huntress

My wife sometimes lets me drive her somewhere in her Grand Marquis Ultimate Edition. Personally, I don’t see where we need anything any nicer, full leather, heated reclining power seats for driver and passenger, climate control, cd changer, air suspension with a very comfortable ride and an easy 26 mpg on the road and I can push it to 30 mpg if I really try. Definitely the most car for the money that I have ever bought. Small cars are not a reasonable option for me, I am six four and 265 pounds.


37 posted on 12/15/2011 4:28:50 PM PST by RipSawyer (This does not end well!)
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To: Utah Binger

I used to have that same Ghia, in red.
Now I drive around in an old Jeep Cherokee.


38 posted on 12/15/2011 4:29:37 PM PST by Alice in Wonderland
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To: guppas

LOL!


39 posted on 12/15/2011 4:31:30 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: decimon

Mother Slim has a Miata and a Ford Escape.


40 posted on 12/15/2011 4:35:34 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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