By Classic Yorkshire contributor Tony Lofthouse
Do you know your choke from your dashboard cassette player?
Well, according to a recent online survey many young drivers don’t and are left baffled by those classic car features so characteristic of the sixties and seventies.
Research by car retailer Cazoo of 2000 ‘Gen Z’ young people – that’s those born between 1997 and 2012 – found 92% couldn’t recognise a manual choke, whilst 90% of those surveyed were non-plussed by a T-bar.
Other missed accessories included:
– manual aerials. Seventy-two percent were unfamiliar with raising or lowering a car aerial
– ashtrays (65%) and cigarette lighters (59%)
– pop-up lights (50%)
– cassette players (43%).
Amazingly, 38% of those young people surveyed were confused by ignition keys and 27% didn’t recognise a lever handbrake.
It seems ‘Gen Zers’ are more comfortable with modern gadgets like touchscreen controls and preferred modified 90s cars which feel classic enough to be cool.
Interestingly, in separate research from AutoTrader Gen Z youngsters prioritise car tech features over exterior looks.
Give me a cassette, CD player or push buttons to press anytime. I could, may be, consign the choke to ‘Room 101’ though!
For more information on these findings click: www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/revealed-the-classic-car-features-gen-z-are-baffled-by-do-you-know-your-choke-from-your-t-bar/ar-AA1WELdC