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Age of Focus RS buyers

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lardlad

Discussion Starter · Apr 16, 2015

Just wondering what the age is of anyone looking to pick up an RS when they hit the showrooms?

I'm a slightly retarded 47 year old (my wife made me add the retarded part).

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Cosmonaut

· #2 · Apr 16, 2015

Well your wife sounds like a very nice lady.

30 here.

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Jobber

· #3 · Apr 16, 2015

25, my fiancée was adamant I shop something with 4 doors, as you wish mademoiselle >

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centurion

· #4 · Apr 17, 2015

Jobber said:
25, my fiancée was adamant I shop something with 4 doors, as you wish mademoiselle >>>

Plus it helps that this 4-door has 'eco' mentioned, extra points to you from the wife

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Cosmonaut

· #5 · Apr 17, 2015

Jobber said:
25, my fiancée was adamant I shop something with 4 doors, as you wish mademoiselle >>>

Is that just to put shopping bags back there or are you starting a little family?

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Jobber

· #6 · Apr 18, 2015

centurion said:
Plus it helps that this 4-door has 'eco' mentioned, extra points to you from the wife

its fuel efficient of course

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MikeB

· #7 · Apr 20, 2015

I'm getting the "retarded" treatment too. This spring I was looking at a used M235i Xdrive.. but then I heard about the FoRS.... I'm 44.

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S.Elliot

· #8 · Apr 20, 2015

MikeB said:
I'm getting the "retarded" treatment too. This spring I was looking at a used M235i Xdrive.. but then I heard about the FoRS.... I'm 44.

Great choices!

I was also at a point where I wanted the M235i X Drive especially after seeing all of the reviews that came out about it.

I hear the M2 is in the works

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Cosmonaut

· #9 · Apr 20, 2015

Seems like the Focus RS is going to attract pretty wide age range of buyers. I like that. Makes it a great product. Its for the young (and the young at heart).

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FocusNostalgic

· #10 · Apr 21, 2015

40 here, but been wanting to own an ST or RS for a few years now. So hoping this mk3 will be the one, it ticks all the right boxes for me.

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S.Elliot

· #11 · Apr 21, 2015

Cosmonaut said:
Seems like the Focus RS is going to attract pretty wide age range of buyers. I like that. Makes it a great product. Its for the young (and the young at heart).

Yeah.

All those years we haven't had anything exciting as this will have A LOT of eyes on it.

Come time for people to take delivery, seeing the exact age range will be interesting to look at.

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I read that millenials accounted for 27 percent of new car sales in the US last year. That makes them the second biggest car buying group in the US, right behind the baby boomers. I am thinking that we could see the average car buying age, especially with cars like the Focus RS, to skew a bit younger than we had seen in the past.

Turns out the doomsayers may be wrong. Millennials -- also known as Generation Y -- accounted for 27 percent of new car sales in the U.S. last year, up from 18 percent in 2010, according to J.D. Power & Associates. They’ve zoomed past Gen X to become the second-largest group of new car buyers after their boomer parents. Millennials are starting to find jobs and relocating to the suburbs and smaller cities, where public transport is spotty.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...e-cars-defying-predictions-of-sales-implosion

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garu

· #13 · Apr 22, 2015

I will be 37 when I actually pick up the car.
I hope it will be my bday as mine is in April.

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Cosmonaut

· #14 · Apr 22, 2015

garu said:
I will be 37 when I actually pick up the car.
I hope it will be my bday as mine is in April.

It would definitely be a good birthday present. They should put a big bow on top if you do get it on your birthday.

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garu

· #15 · Apr 22, 2015

Lol, I can only imagine for now.

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S.Elliot

· #16 · Apr 22, 2015

Even get the dealership to wrap it for you

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93dangerranger

· #17 · Apr 23, 2015

31 here. Wish they would get these on the market before I leave this ol world.

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S.Elliot

· #18 · Apr 23, 2015

93dangerranger said:
31 here. Wish they would get these on the market before I leave this ol world.

Fortunately you should be able to get to see it evolve quite a bit, of course that depends on how long they plan to keep such a vehicle before it all ends.

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centurion

· #19 · Apr 24, 2015

93dangerranger said:
31 here. Wish they would get these on the market before I leave this ol world.

I bet you'll be on the younger end of a chart showing the age breakdown of owners. Pushing it even younger we could see some in their late 20's

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Cosmonaut

· #20 · Apr 24, 2015

With this car attracting buyers, both young and old, I do wonder how many tech options they will offer for the car. I recently read that millennials are willing to spend 50% more on new technologies in their cars than baby boomers.

Millennials are willing to spend more than 50 percent more for new technologies in automobiles than baby boomers, a J.D. Power survey found.

At an average of $3,703 a vehicle, millennials topped boomers at $2,416 and Generation X members at $3,007, the Westlake Village, California-based research firm said in a statement. The findings were presented Wednesday at an Automotive Press Association luncheon in Detroit.

So perhaps they will have a stock version that older buyers will tend towards, and then a bunch of tech options that millennials will be willing to shell out for.

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