Porsche Survival

[fivepointnine]

it comes down to modern demographics, the current driving generation is more impressed by the latest Iphone than a nice car. They could care less about going for a nice Sunday afternoon drive down a windy road in the mountains, they would rather be playing video games.

[pothole]

Originally Posted by fivepointnine

it comes down to modern demographics, the current driving generation is more impressed by the latest Iphone than a nice car. They could care less about going for a nice Sunday afternoon drive down a windy road in the mountains, they would rather be playing video games.

It's certainly true that proportionally fewer young people today have driver's licences (in Europe and the US) than they did 20 or even 10 years. And indeed, many of them are more interested in the latest smartphone launch / review than reading about new sports cars.

All that is indeed part of the overall picture, that also includes environmental and economic pressures, that has me doubting the overall commercial viability of sports cars these days. Especially, small, affordable, lightweight sports cars that serious driving enthusiasts would enjoy.

Instead (in Europe, anyway), sports cars will be ****************heaps like DS3 Racings or MINI Coopers. Not sports cars at all, in other words, but that's the sort of car people sill queue up to buy. So it goes.