Today's car has a (small) chance of becoming a classic car (question of the week)
03/13/2023
Thirty years ago, we all agreed on some cars: this will never be a classic! After all, a real classic car needs a good dose of chrome. And today? Today, people pay collector's prices for well-equipped Mercedes-Benz W124s and look for the last well-kept examples of Renault Twingo or Lancia Delta Integrale and BMW M3 E36 that have not yet been burned up.
Will this be the case again in 2053 and will a significant number of today's new cars be able to survive as classic cars?
This is what we wanted to know from our readers in a " question of the week" .
The answers give rise to hope, as almost half of the 390 readers who took part believe that at least a small proportion of today's cars have a chance of reaching 30 years of age and becoming classics. 11 percent (absolute) assume that today's cars are better built than their predecessors and that the prospects for healthy ageing are therefore good. 37.7 percent (absolute) assume that a small number of today's cars can survive despite being difficult to repair and difficult to obtain spare parts for.
However, there are also 37.2 percent (absolute) who give today's cars little chance of survival and a further 10.8 percent (absolute) who believe that the fate of today's cars will be sealed less by technology than by external circumstances.
3.3 percent did not agree with any of the answers. One reader also thought that today's classic cars could well survive and that their intended use could probably be reduced to events.
Here is the graphical analysis of the answers:
We have already posed a new "question of the week" . Now we want to know whether Zwischengas readers still buy/subscribe to/read printed classic car magazines.
And of course you can still read the answers to previous "Questions of the Week" at any time in the corresponding topic channel.
