CAR ASPIRATIONS ARE CHANGING, NATURALLY

I GREW UP in the 1980s and loved everything about cars of that era. Our family car was a V8 SLR Torana. My bedroom wall included a Group A Brock Commodore and Lamborghini Diablo. These cars were designed to make motoring fun and enjoyable, not simply a mode of transport. In fear that such cars are slowly becoming less available, my 67-year-old father-in-law recently purchased a GT Mustang. It makes me wonder what cars will make up your Databank in 2030? I recently overheard my 10-year-old son talking to his friend about cars. I was immediately excited that some of my father’s passion for cars had passed down to another family generation. However, their conversation was very different to my playground conversations in the 1980s; not about horsepower or 0-100 times, but rather how far a new Tesla can travel on a single charge! These 10-year-olds will be purchasing vehicles within the next decade and the car retail landscape will change quicker than ever before. Perhaps in 50 years my son will be telling his grandchildren how his grandfather owned a GT Mustang... with a combustion engine!

Brett Zecchini, Annandale, Qld

The only constant nowadays seems to be change, Brett, and none of us really knows what 2070 will look like. So here’s to panic buying and celebrating the awesomeness of a free-breathing bent-eight while the going’s good – Ed

THEIR CONVERSATION WAS VERY DIFFERENT TO MY PLAYGROUND CONVERSATIONS