Is Your Car Considered Part of the Family?
Here’s a question/survey that I guarantee would have higher numbers if they asked people in Detroit and Michigan. Is Your Car Considered Part of the Family? Hell yeah!
Is your car considered part of the family? How many people said YES
51% Americans say they think of their car as “part of the family.” (again, it’d be much higher if they asked us here in Detroit)
The poll also found 53% of us would hang onto our current car FOREVER if that was an option. But the #1 reason isn’t emotional, it’s financial (unless it’s the family truckster, am I right Clark?)
80% of us are trying to keep our current car going as long as possible, because we don’t want to spend the money on a new one. Here are five more reasons we don’t want to replace it . . .
1. It’s fairly reliable. 58% agreed.
2. It gets pretty good gas mileage, 45%.
3. There’s just no way I could afford a new car right now, 28%.
4. Fond memories, like a road trip or family vacations, 24%.
5. You just have an emotional attachment to your car, 22%.
That said, most of us WOULDN’T go with the same car if we had to buy right now. Only a third said they’d buy the same make and model in a newer year.
Is YOUR car considered part of the family?
In my family (no surprise) the answer is a resounding yes. This goes back to my very first car, a white 1974 Vega with a steel sleeved 4 cylinder and electric fuel pump that kicked on when I was low on gas. Her name was Ethyl (don’t know why, it just was) and she was my baby. Over the years we’ve had cars, vans, SUV’s and they’re always part of the family. We pat them on the hood after a successful road trip, get sad when they get damaged or need repairs (really sad for the repair part…lol). Bottom line – it’s the most American thing we can do is love our family car. Just like my friend Ken Lingenfelter loves his car collection in Brighton.
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