{"id":16314,"date":"2009-07-12T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16314"},"modified":"2012-08-05T16:18:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:18:43","slug":"automobile-misc-after-years-of-spinning-their-wheels-carmakers-are-turning-to-new-vehicles-to-revitalize-the-declining-youth-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16314","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Misc &#8211; After years of spinning their wheels, carmakers are turning to new vehicles to revitalize the declining youth market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When he was 14, Joe Gildea drove a Chevy up and down his driveway just to feel the thrill of a set of wheels. By the time he was a high school senior, the Quincy native had saved $160 to buy a yellow 1953 Chevy Bel Air with a white hardtop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now 62, Gildea has lovingly pieced together a collection of more than a dozen Cadillacs, but he failed to pass down this passion to his daughter, Michelle. To her, a car is just a car. The 20-year-old recently inherited her grandmother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s used 2002 Toyota Camry, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s her new BlackBerry that has her pumped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care what kind of car I drive as long as it runs and gets me to and from work,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Michelle Gildea said.<\/p>\n<p>For many young Americans, the automobile is &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/07\/12\/younger_drivers_eschewing_flash_for_function\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he was 14, Joe Gildea drove a Chevy up and down his driveway just to feel the thrill of a set of wheels. By the time he was a high school senior, the Quincy native had saved $160 to buy a yellow 1953 Chevy Bel Air with a white hardtop. Now 62, Gildea has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25259,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions\/25259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}