A new survey conducted by Digital Third Coast and automotive products company Golden Eagle showed Americans have some pretty realistic dream cars. The list isn’t populated by exotic or luxurious European makes but instead featured all American vehicles.
Among a sample size of 2,000 Americans, which is rather small to speak for the entire country, the survey found most respondents sought-after dream cars are the Ford Mustang, Tesla Model S, Jeep Wrangler, Chevrolet Corvette and Chevrolet Camaro. The statistics also showed a big split among age and sex. Men preferred the Model S to anything, followed closely with the Camaro and Corvette, but women overwhelmingly dream of a Jeep Wrangler and Ford Mustang.
Millennials have a thing for the Model S, while Generation X sided with the Camaro. Baby Boomers still dream of Corvettes. Perhaps more intriguing were the traits men and women defined as part of their dream cars. Here, the men named four-wheel drive, size and safety as top traits for their dream car. Women, on the other hand, named a convertible, sunroof and speed as their top traits.
It sounds as if Chevrolet could do a better job getting younger folks into Camaros with a reshuffled price and content strategy. Good news because we think the brand will do just that.
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Millennials may be dreaming of a Tesla Model S (especially the P100D) but the older generations that dream of the Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro are the real buyers since they are professionals with the income to buy their dream cars now, and not having to wait. Boomers are retired with the income for their Corvettes. Women like smaller sports cars or more luxury. I see many older women driving Jaguars.
Guessing you own a Volt and if so, good chance you live in CA, where I live…I live in “trendy” L.A. and it seems every girl here wants to own and drive a luxury branded SUV with a sunroof…For the convertible/sportcars, they want to be the passenger…
We have a lot of Tesla’s and Tesla-S’s around here and a friend has one. The predominant buyers seem to be Boomers and the age range seems to be from around 35 to 70. The other model Tesla’s ‘X’s ans some 3’s, seem to be owned by younger families and I have never seen a man driving one.
Trying to find out if they could only select from a pre-populated list or could write in whatever…”Dream car” is very subjective as it could mean a car you could own in the future or right now in the present and if the present, if you’re a broke college kid living in a question area of town with on street parking, owning a Bentley will certainly cause you constant stress…
Really wonder why more people didn’t pick, say a Ferrari…
More interesting details, including that by gender, 52% of women favor Camaros to men which had 48%, on this survey here:
https://www.goldeagle.com/tips-tools/american-dream-cars/
Damn! Where am I in this poll… Guess I’m a Boomer woman…Corvette – Camaro -Mustang – Convertible, sunroof , and speed.
Bottom line, it is a Model-S and Corvette GS or Jag-F-Type for me, after I win the Lottery….COL!
Maybe its time for the Camaro to go. I have a 2017 Camaro LT and I love it. It is great. For me. I love the styling, history and power. Its 2 door and it suits me fine. But that being said, The back seats are worthless. I cannot take my parents and friends in the car and drive to the beach like the challenger and mustang can. The Camaro needs more color options: orange, green metallic, brown metallic, maroon, etc…The price point is too high. They need a stripped down base V8 for $29,995 to $ 32,000. The Camaro produces too much emotion. Who cares anymore Camaro or mustang? I don’t. The Challenger sells because of its commercials, (marketing) affordability, and heritage. Plus your wife and friends or kids can jump in the challenger in the back seat and you drive to the beach. Bring back the 2 door Chevelle, 114 inch wheelbase, no visibility issues, full back seat, decent trunk space, and have plenty of engine and color options, and have a stripped, not equipped V8 for $29,995…Then you’ll sell 100,000 of them a year no problem!
Read more: http://gmauthority.com/blog/2018/01/chevrolet-camaro-sales-numbers-figures-results-december-2017/#ixzz53LBQi7qp
I have been waiting for a new Chevelle like that for years.
Unfortunately & Fortunately, those vehicles cannot be built anymore for a number of reasons. Mandated Safety requirements and customers who demand all the convenience and safety modern vehicles provide.
If they could be built, I would lobby for a new 65′ Chevelle wagon with a 327″/275-Hp F.I. engine and 5-speed manual with a posi-differential and a handling package, 4-wheel disc brakes, in Night Fall Gray Metallic with a sunroof and with a red interior and a Bose sound system, Cruise control and remote locks. Please GM…take my money.
Back in the early 90’s I built a 65′ Chevelle wagon very similar to the above… should have kept it.
Yes they can be built. Take a modern Chevy SS, make it a 2 door, a decent engine, automatic or manual transmissions, and maybe three trim levels, done. My money is waiting.
“Unfortunately & Fortunately, those vehicles cannot be built anymore for a number of reasons. Mandated Safety requirements and customers who demand all the convenience and safety modern vehicles provide.”
Wrong. Safety requirements haven’t stopped Mercedes from selling pillarless coupes in the US for over 20 years now.
The reason those cars aren’t built as often is that it costs more engineering money to do. Mercedes can charge more to recoup their engineering costs for a pillarless coupe, but Dodge can’t for it’s Challenger.
Pillared coupes, or “2 door post” cars are still cool.
Wrong? You forgot convertibles. Have you seen the size of the A & C posts on those
Merc hardtop cars. Like most new cars, it is like trying to look around a tree. And part of the formula that is wanted in the desired retro cars is the lighter weight of the old cars and that is not doable anymore unless lighter construction materials are used . My 68′ Charger weighed far less then a new Challenger, but I would rather be in a head-on in the Challenger then the old Charger.
This week I bought a very low mileage 2003 Honda ‘insight’ which weighs 1,950 lbs. with its aluminum construction, about 400 lbs. less then my Miata. So aluminum construction will be the norm in the move to EV’s to ease loads on energy requirements.
I googled all coupes, filtered on $50K or less and skimmed, there was only one full size coupe, the Challenger…No one in recent memory has seemed to copied this formula, there has always been rumors that FCA may need to down size the challenge and the full sized segment has been better served with 4 door models…
Might I suggest giving your Camaro to your wife and buying a Hellcat for yourself? From time to time they have crazy lease deals, bases for (disclaimer, not including money down, fees, taxes, etc) $499/mo once and $599/mo twice in 2017…Check the Hellcat buy and sell forums at the beginning of the month because like all other times, once the deal goes viral the base trim without options are the first to go…
Yes, but for me a 1957 Corvette and a 1969 Camaro.