Promote and protect youngtimers more
12/07/2015
Youngtimers are often looked at askance by the owners of "real" classic cars; they are excluded from many events because the minimum age is 30 or 35 years. In practice, they also do not benefit from the same advantages as older cars when it comes to registration or insurance. Yet youngtimers are the future classic cars and, what's more, the younger cars in particular are affordable and closer to future generations than cars from the 1950s or 1960s.
We therefore asked whether youngtimers should not be promoted more. And the answer was clear. Only 14% of the readers who took part in our survey were of the opinion that young classic cars should not be given any additional privileges compared to today.
In contrast, 83% were in favor of promoting youngtimers more (33%) or at least giving them more privileges in certain areas.
However, it is not enough to simply improve the situation, wrote reader Dehler. The problem also lies with the manufacturers, who do little to maintain spare parts for modern cars. However, the increasing complexity of the cars also makes it very difficult for the manufacturers (and the owners of the cars).
The fact that half of the respondents were only in favor of a selective improvement, so that a certain distance to veterans and classic oldtimers remains, also shows that even among classic car fans, youngtimers are still viewed with a certain amount of skepticism.
Here are the figures in graphic form:
All resolutions and comments on previous questions of the week can be found in a separate topic channel.
And of course we have already asked the next question. This time we want to know whether a trend reversal in classic car prices is imminent.
