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Originally Posted by LeRich
Foe the next generation, there is nothing to find interest in. Modern cars are very detached from what got most of us interested in cars in the first place. There is now little need to interact with your car. You get in, press a button, steer and that's pretty much it. Modern cars don't need - and don't enable - DIY intervention. You no longer need to be a motorist, just a user. Cars are now just transportation devices. The nuances have been lost as cars have evolved to detach and isolate their occupants from the goings-on under the bonnet and beneath the wheels, so much so that the experience is now synthetically enhanced with piped engine soundtracks, artificially weighty steering and pop/bang engine maps. It's pretty sad really but at least primes us for the future of electric automated mobility devices.
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ahh, but did 'your' previous generation not say something similar about 'your' generation of cars? As time and reliability move on there is less necessity to work on cars. How many kids even change a wheel after a puncture? from what a recovery driver told me, not many, male and female - mainly down to the £99 per month deals, with RAC cover, making the yoof ignorant and lazy. Go back 40 years, where the 40-60 year old driver reminisces on greasing a trunnion, or gapping the valves every so often. For me, it was gapping the points, cleaning out and inspecting the distributor cap, changing the spark plugs every service (what happened to 6-12,000 mile spark plug changes?
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As tech moves on, it will come down to electronic and LED customising, screen displays etc (this has already started). Or perhaps hacking or illicitly activating the various
electronic features that you pay for remotely - it is this that will keep the youth interested. And this all depends if people actually buy cars in the future rather than leasing or hiring them (which is also killing the interest).
I think you hit it on the head with the term 'being a user'. Bit like a computer game?