Bring on the Town Cars: 3/5 New Car Buyers are Over 50

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Yeah... so turns out that us young folk are buying fewer and fewer new cars. 3/5 new car buyers are now over 50 - which is a bad thing. Why a bad thing? Well - it will increase the preference for softly sprung yachts with automatic transmissions, allowing less trickle-down of fun-to-drive sporty cars for those of us who cant spring for a $30,000 rapidly depreciating asset on our balance sheet (or, like me, think that is simply crazy.)

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