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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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.
Bucks are known to stop in all Rotary intersections.
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!!!!
-PJ
Took my BOSS 302 Mustang out. Got beat by an old guy in a scooter chair. We were racing for pinks. Stupid JATOs.
Correction Buicks
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.
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. :-)
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.
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! :)
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.
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?
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.
“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?
Do you know what wine feels like passing suddenly and forcefully through sinuses?
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.
I used to have that same Ghia, in red.
Now I drive around in an old Jeep Cherokee.
LOL!
Mother Slim has a Miata and a Ford Escape.
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