The auto industry seems to slowly give up on ideas of returning to the heydays of 17 million car sales per year. And the industry already fingered a guilty party: Young people just don’t buy enough cars. “Financially pressed young people who connect online instead of in person could hold down peak demand by 2 million units each year,” says Bloomberg in a long feature article.
Auto sales to 18-to-34-year-old buyers hovered at 11 percent in April 2012, down from 17 percent in April 2007, before the recession, says R.L. Polk & Co.
The 80 million U.S. consumers born from 1981 to 2001 are more interested in 4G than in V-8 for, says consultancy Deloitte LLP.
Dan Luria, a labor economist at Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center in Plymouth, Michigan says that a combination of lower wages and the generation’s tendency to favor gadgets over cars may cap average U.S. auto sales at about 15 million annually.
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