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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: In Canada, near Detroit
Posts: 1,549
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Originally Posted by aigel
Today's youth around the world is turning to gadgets, social media and other soft stuff over cars and machinery. It is especially bad in Europe where cars are practically obsolete in large urban areas. I work in high tech and in my company I would estimate the number of car enthusiasts at 2% and the number of people doing some of their own work at 5-10%. And this is in the L.A. area, where cars are still a BFD.
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I think much of this is due to sky-high insurance rates and the expensive cost of cars for youth. It's hard to be interested in something you can't afford.
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