Don't cry when the kids growing up don't want your old car!!!

[odcics2]

Interesting:  http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2013/12/millennials-pushing-development-of-driverless-vehicles/

[Ghoste]

Can't stop progress.

[JB400]

Sounds like my generation wants the comforts of home for on the road.   Driving used to be about going on mini vacations to see a broader view of the world at any given time.   Another era going by the wayside

[Old Moparz]

Sounds like my generation wants the comforts of home for on the road.   Driving used to be about going on mini vacations to see a broader view of the world at any given time.   Another era going by the wayside

True, but you have to remember that gas costs more & takes a much larger percentage of your paycheck now. It's cheaper to stay at home. 

[Ghoste]

Or they're a bunch of spoiled little wussies. 

[JB400]

Sounds like my generation wants the comforts of home for on the road.   Driving used to be about going on mini vacations to see a broader view of the world at any given time.   Another era going by the wayside

True, but you have to remember that gas costs more & takes a much larger percentage of your paycheck now. It's cheaper to stay at home. 

Are you sure about that?  At minimum wage, how many gallons of gas can you buy for an hours' worth of work?  What about the number of loaves of bread?  If you look at any given points in history, these numbers should be fairly close. 

[Old Moparz]

Sounds like my generation wants the comforts of home for on the road.  Driving used to be about going on mini vacations to see a broader view of the world at any given time.   Another era going by the wayside

True, but you have to remember that gas costs more & takes a much larger percentage of your paycheck now. It's cheaper to stay at home.  

Are you sure about that?  At minimum wage, how many gallons of gas can you buy for an hours' worth of work?  What about the number of loaves of bread?  If you look at any given points in history, these numbers should be fairly close.  

Do you know a website that tracks this? I've been looking online but don't see one yet that takes into consideration the other costs involved. Maybe the per gallon gas price is fairly close, even adjusted for inflation, but I seriously doubt the total operating cost is. (Which is something I should have said in place of gas price.) Tax on one gallon is higher, insurance is higher, the car itself costs more to purchase, tolls are higher, registration fees are higher & the minimum wage hasn't kept up.

For me, I remember working between semesters in the early 80's for just under $4 / hour full time. I owned a somewhat dependable $100 beater, had a year's worth of basic insurance for a few hundred bucks, & never had to worry about spending more than $25 for gas for the entire week. That gas bill covered the days spent driving nowhere with friends, too.  

[ACUDANUT]

My one and only child (girl) hates my cars. Quote..." It smells like gas in here....It's hot in here...Where is the computer plug in...What do you mean...no A/C or heat.

[tan top]

the worlds getting more like  Demolition man  every day       

[ACUDANUT]

the worlds getting more like  Demolition man  every day       

I don't know what that means. 

[tan top]

the worlds getting more like  Demolition man  every day      

I don't know what that means.  

 
the  silvester stallone  film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlpPR_GgwEc
 

[ACUDANUT]

ooookay.

[tan top]

ooookay.

 if & when It comes on tv again worth a watch still good entertainment ,  was made 20 years ago , look at the stuff in the film & look at some of the stuff around today & certain generations with mobile devices  

[bull]

Driving cuts into their texting, online and video game time. Maybe the cars of the future will be little bubble boy capsules that will go up the sides of their office building when they arrive like Minority Report cars and transform into a cubicle. If they play their cards right they may never have to come in direct contact with another human during their entire life span.

[Cooter]

As long as the musclecars are being praised by the likes of Vin Diesel, there will be dailys, and the cars that are always cooler.
I grt way more thumbs up from younger folks than older.

[Indygenerallee]

I'll die steering myself to the funeral home.....Old school all the way to the grave! 

[Ghoste]

I grt way more thumbs up from younger folks than older.

Do you?  I find it about equal around here.

[F8-4life]

My generation may like old cars from a distance but the second they need to get underneath one uh oh that means work.
And I don't think they like them that much.

[ws23rt]

Sounds like my generation wants the comforts of home for on the road.  Driving used to be about going on mini vacations to see a broader view of the world at any given time.   Another era going by the wayside

True, but you have to remember that gas costs more & takes a much larger percentage of your paycheck now. It's cheaper to stay at home.  

Are you sure about that?  At minimum wage, how many gallons of gas can you buy for an hours' worth of work?  What about the number of loaves of bread?  If you look at any given points in history, these numbers should be fairly close.  

That's what I was thinking.

I remember the last time I read about the cost of living it hadn't changed much over the last 50yrs or so.

The value of money goes down.---Inflation---Wages go up---correction.   These moves are not smooth but have tended to keep things on par.

I would like to see an index of some sort that shows this.  There must be one?

It' would be something like how many working hours a month does it take for a middle class house hold to pay for food, housing, transportation. (the basics)

Gal. of milk per hour of work.
Hours of work to pay the mortgage/rent.
Hours of work to pay total cost of a car per mile. etc.    I know this info is out there.

[Ghoste]

But has minimum wage kept pace?

[nvrbdn]

one thing i know is that a couple guys working at ihop or mcdonalds could rent an apartment together and pay their bills and have enough money to go out for the weekend. im not so sure that that would be true today. i could be wrong, but i just dont think so.

[ws23rt]

But has minimum wage kept pace?

A key question.?---I was making $1.25 per hour when I bought my first new car. (69 bee).  I also bought my own food and paid rent.

Three years later I bought my first house at age 21. (my wages had gone up to $4.25 per hr.).  In those days I had many friends that could not understand how I did it.  Those same friends mooched food and a place to stay until I explained things to them.

[Ghoste]

And have our necessities changed?  I see a lot of welfare homes with satellite dishes.  Every kid "needs" a laptop and a cell phone.  We have to have the big screen plasma and 1001 other things that weren't available 30 years ago.
Not to mention the interest on everyones credit debts.
Maybe the wages have kept up but our spending needs exploded?

[ws23rt]

Our spending needs indeed.   What is a fundamental need?   Those things come first or the others can't be had.

Unless one decides to live of of the efforts of others.   However at some point those others will have had enough.  Like I did.  I got different friends.

[nvrbdn]

got that right. we didnt need phones and cable or big screens. none of that stuff was around. no computers. alot of the expense that people have today,we didnt have. the tv sat on a board held up by a couple cement blocks. my first home stereo was a car stereo and a car battery in my apartment. i communicated by cb radio. ha ha, life was more simple.