Article content We know, we know—the ol’ “youth don’t care about cars any more!” bunkum has been shot down repeatedly over the past decade, as survey after survey eventually revealed it wasn’t a lack of interest that was keeping Millennials from vehicle ownership, but simply a lack of funds. Well, new data out of classic-car insurer Hagerty suggests that the-kids-are-all-right enthusiasm for vintage vehicles is being picked up by the Generation Z-ers that have succeeded the Millennials—with the headline statistic suggesting Gen Z might be even more interested in classic cars than Baby Boomers. Now, there are a few caveats, here: first of all, the numbers being crunched are based on a single survey of just over 2,000 Americans conducted for Hagerty by research firm OnePoll (Talker Research).
Yeah, we agree: that’s not a whole lot of respondents. Second, as the decades have rolled on, the definition of “classic car” has changed, too. Last we checked – about five years ago, in 2019 – many Millennials were interested in stalwart classics like the first-gen Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro, yes .
But the newest data unsurprisingly shows there’s even greater enthusiasm among that cohort and their Gen Z successors in cars built in the ’80s and ’90s. That said, on to the new survey data: yes, Generation Z shows a “strong and growing interest in collector cars,” reads Hagerty’s press release. “While nearly half (47%) of the respondents surveyed n.