Originally Posted by JoesC5

"The median age of a Corvette owner has risen from 54 to 61 during the past 10 years, according to research firm Strategic Vision."

2003 to 2013.

https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-...173431426.html

I read that it has gone up from 61 to 63 from 2013 to 2017, but I don't remember where I read that number.

To get the average up from 54 to 61 means that one hell of a lot of those owners are well above 61 to get the average up from 54.

Either way, lets compare that number(61 years old for the Corvette in 2013) to another study done in 2014.

Mercedes------------54.6 years old average
Chrysler-------------54.7 years old average
Smart---------------55.3 years old average
Bently---------------56.2 years old average
Jaguar---------------56.6 years old average
Lexus----------------56.9 years old average
Cadillac--------------59.5 years old average
Bugatti--------------59.5 years old average
Buick----------------60.3 years old average
Lincoln--------------61.0 years old average

The Corvette is not listed in the top above top ten BRANDS for average age, as the Corvette is a model and not a brand. They were only looking at brands.

PS-my last new Corvette purchase was a 2009 Z06 when I was 65. I'm now 75 so if I were to buy a new C7 today. I would shift the average even higher. Of the dozen or so friends that have C7's all but four are over 65 and the two youngest(husband and wife that each have a C7 Z06) are in their 50's, very close to 60. 90%+ of my friends with Corvettes(80+ Corvettes) are over 65(and none are younger than 50) and most of them drive C5's and C6's.

I did meet a young man(in his 40's) at a car show(his 20134 C7 was parked nest to my 1964 Corvette) last Fall, but he bought it used, not new.

I've never even seen a 20's something in a new C7. Most that I happen to see on the road are in their 50's and 60's and above.

Is it any wonder why when you see a dozen Corvettes caravanning on a road trip to visit our National Parks, etc, that they want a large cargo area, to hold their walkers, in addition to their luggage.

Originally Posted by theplatinumog

Is this true? What about in the last 4 years, while the c7 has been out?

Count me as one of those 20 somethings that bought a c7 for his first corvette

Originally Posted by JustinStrife

I do not understand why people here who claim they love Corvette, want it fundamentally changed.

Originally Posted by AORoads

Could you verify, or justify that number, 33K as total capacity? Somehow, I doubt that number is true capacity esp. if you add in two, full shifts.

Originally Posted by theplatinumog

Very interesting. But that was up until 2013, before the c7 existed.

Even if it did go from 61 to 63 2014-2018 (I very much doubt it) Wouldn't that mean the c7 has slowed down the trend upward?

Originally Posted by theplatinumog

Very interesting. But that was up until 2013, before the c7 existed.

Even if it did go from 61 to 63 2014-2018 (I very much doubt it) Wouldn't that mean the c7 has slowed down the trend upward?

Originally Posted by JoesC5

2004 to 2013 is ten years and the age went up by 8 years(54 to 61) or 1.25 years of age for each year of the calendar.

2014 to 2017(which is the years I said) is four years and the age went up by 2 years(61 to 63) or 3.0 years of age for each year of the calendar.

By my math, the average age increase each year went from 1.25 years during the C6, to 1.33 years during the C7 so that would mean even more old farts vs youngsters are buying C7's each year, then during C6's rein.

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Originally Posted by JoesC5

2014 to 2017(which is the years I said) is four years and the age went up by 2 years(61 to 63)
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Originally Posted by theplatinumog

Thank you very much for citing the c6 years. Did you happen to find where you read that the average age went from 61 to 63 during the c7 reign?

Originally Posted by theplatinumog

4 years of calendar and 2 years of age difference is .5 age difference per year? Am I missing something? ...

Originally Posted by patentcad

I think it's quite arguable that once it becomes evident and demonstrable with mountains of historical data how much safer autonomous cars are than vehicles piloted by humans that another debate will emerge: Should human drivers be banned all together because they present a clear hazard to general safety.

Count on it. I'm 60, I'm glad I probably won't live to see that sad day. Actually, sometimes I fear that I might.

Originally Posted by theboom

Not going to happen. It may very well be true that autonomous cars will eventually be much safer than human drivers (quite likely actually), but that will only be true when compared to the current un-augmented human drivers. Once autonomous safety features and crash avoidance gets more advanced an becomes standard on every vehicle, the gap between human drivers and self driving gets much smaller and makes the argument to completely ban humans driving very weak and it's not going to happen.

There was a study done that concluded that if every car on the road had level 2 autonomous tech (auto braking, lane keep, etc...), fatal crashed would decrease by 80%. That alone is closing the gap tremendously and that's not even considering the much better systems we will have in the future.

Banning old cars that don't have autonomous safety features built in or up fitted with them? Sure maybe. Banning all humans driving all together? Not happening.

Originally Posted by Z06NJ

But nobody is talking about what happens to all the batteries (Hybrids, etc.) when they go bad and need to be replaced. Where are they being buried or trashed, and is THAT good for the soil/environment?!

Originally Posted by dcbingaman

Ok, let's try this again !