Are millennials the last generation to buy trucks en masse?It seems like gen Z isn't as interested... What does it mean for American manufacturers who seem to rely heavily on selling BOF trucks/SUVs?
There will come a day of reckoning for Ford and GMC because the young uns don't care for Truggs.
>>29025185So what are they going to do D:
>>29025187Don't really care. They don't make gas sedans anymore so fuck em.
>>29025185>>29025187They go back to being bare bones farm tools/fleet vehicles for commercial entities again instead of luxury status symbols. The future will suck hard though so it will probably be illegal to own without specific licenses or taxes.
half the zoomers in my upper middle class suburb are driving tricked out restored old truggs or tricked out lifted new truggsBROWN zoomers on the other hand....
>>29025187I see four routes for them:1. Makes deals with Chinese companies and manufactures rebadged Chinese cars2. Gets bought out by the Chinese3. Dies a slow painful death4. Somehow manage to catch up to their competition and survive on their own (least likely)
>>29025187I pray with every fiber of my being that they either stop being retarded faggot cunts and pull their heads out of their asses and start actually competing again by making cool stuff again. Or they can go bankrupt. Both options are ideal. If they die then it will be entirely self inflicted what they deserve.
I bought a maverick as a millenial but only cuz I'm too poor to tow anything of significance besides my own possessions when I move because I don't own property
Millennials? What fucking millennial can afford a brand new truck? Like 10 of us nation wide? Used Prius it is
>>29025182Trucks only make sense if you have things to tow or need the bed. Boomers had disposable income so they had things to tow.
What type of vehicle do zoomers prefer?
>>29025447Like Japanese economy cars
>>29025182I'm a millennial and I think trucks are stupid unless you're using it for work and even then a candy van is a better work vehicle than a truckThe ideal vehicle is a motorcycle and an suv, trucks are as dumb as 2 seat coupes
>>29025182>2024 sierra 1500that's like 50% of the annual pre-tax wages of the average full-time american worker. kek.
>>29025182Zoomers don't drive.
>>29025182Most of the zoomers I know drive their parent's trucks which will likely be handed down to them. OP's reddit fantasy where trucks stop existing and everyone drive kei junk doesn't align very much with reality.
>>29025472Correct. And if they are driving they're in a turbo poorfag "can't get a loan so they drive a beatup accord" mode. Which is totally the correct thing to do financially, but it also doesn't mean they're not interested in trucks at the moment. Millenials weren't buying trucks en masse at age 25 either.
>>29025276>>29025451Millennials are the last generation to be interested... and even among them, only the older millennials both want and can afford new trucks. >>29025516> where trucks stop existing and everyone drive kei junk doesn't align very much with realityUh no, but for Ford and GM and Dodge to stay alive, people need to be buying new trucks, you see. They obviously can't currently compete in the econobox sector.
>>29025210>>29025208I don't really care about the econobox segment or trucks, but i like American sports cars. The V8 engine development in a mustang/charger/challenger/camaro/corvette has a lot to do with the truck counterparts from these companies right? If trucks stop being produced, then what place do v8 american sports cars have?
>>29025529what econobox sector? a lot of japanese econoboxes were discontinued because no one was buying them. Toyota makes most of their money on trucks and SUVs. if people stop buying trucks, the japanese big three will also die.
>>29025556Uh not really. It's that they went from econobox sedans to econobox crossovers. What good crossovers do the american big three have? No one says "I'm going to get an equinox" instead of a rav4 or crv, unless he's african american.
>>29025563African americans prefer japanese brands, and zoomers aren't buying brand new crossovers, though. boomers and millennials are. so according to you, the japanese auto industry will still die off.
>>29025182Most of Gen Z can’t afford new cars to begin with, what they do doesn’t matter
