Residuals

Not that it’s much of a poll, but my son and his contemporaries do indeed seem to have a very different attitude towards cars or other personal transport than my generation did.
All in their early to mid 20s, educated and in many cases already earning good money.
However, the ones who have even bothered to learn to drive (fewer than I would have imagined) and acquire cars are almost unilaterally driving around in old basic models. In particular the boys. Any newer ones are primarily in the hands of the girls with Fiat 500s or Minis apparently the default choice for them.
The lads just don’t seem to care much what they have so long as it gets them about.
Contrast that with my younger years when we would almost consider selling body parts to get a model or type of car we aspired to.

Yes indeed, my lad is only on his second car at 23. In fact he’d still be in his first one if he hadn’t driven that one through a wall.
By contrast, I’d had maybe 12 different cars by the time I was his age. Some of that was choice, but mainly it was a result of them being really shonky things that fell apart. Some were even sold at a mild profit despite their limitations.