{"id":187,"date":"2011-07-03T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T08:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=187"},"modified":"2011-11-19T23:29:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T23:29:03","slug":"young-people-are-losing-interest-in-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/young-people-are-losing-interest-in-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Young People Are Losing Interest in Cars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8211; by Matthew DeBord<br \/>\n<a title=\"Young People Are Losing Interest in Cars...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-debord\/car-industry_b_888383.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;Young People Are Losing Interest in Cars, But That Doesn&#8217;t Mean the End of the  Road for Automakers&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly, young people don&#8217;t care about cars, according to surveys and  forward-looking market analysis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnet.com\/blog\/electric-cars\/demotorizing-what-happens-when-young-people-don-8217t-care-about-cars\/3450\" target=\"_hplink\">Roland Berger Strategy Consultants<\/a> recently published a study  of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandberger.com\/company\/press\/releases\/Automotive-landscape-2025.html\" target=\"_hplink\">2025 auto market<\/a> that documented the car&#8217;s decline.<\/p>\n<p>For example, among current Japanese students and graduates in their 20s and  30s, cars rank well below fashion, music, and video games in terms of interest.  Young Germans are expressing a declining enthusiasm for driving, but an  increasing desire to ride a bike or take public transportation. Even In China,  where car sales are surging, youths are expected to begin losing their interest  in automobiles by 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Young People Are Losing Interest in Cars\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/matthew-debord\/car-industry_b_888383.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continued at original site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; by Matthew DeBord Huffington Post &#8220;Young People Are Losing Interest in Cars, But That Doesn&#8217;t Mean the End of the Road for Automakers&#8221; Increasingly, young people don&#8217;t care about cars, according to surveys and forward-looking market analysis. Roland Berger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/young-people-are-losing-interest-in-cars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}