>>149714461
That might be a part of it. There's also the fact that cars used to represent the ultimate freedom, but kids have the internet now and don't need to drive to meet up with friends. To a modern kid, having a car is just the first step to becoming enmeshed in capitalism, which is obviously increasingly unappealing. I also think there might be an instance of the tail wagging the dog, so to speak, where cars ceased to be romanticized in media toward the end of the 90s, so kids stopped seeing cars as heroic or cool. Even evergreen pop culture automotive icons like the Batmobile got downgraded to ugly "function over form" shit like the Tumbler in Batman Begins. I could see Adam West's batmobile inspiring a kid to love cars, but Bale's? Not so much.
I'm a millennial who still loves car culture, but I think a lot of that came from watching older movies/tv shows as a kid, like Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, The Love Bug, and so on. I latched onto animated cars like the Gadgetmobile, the turtle van, and even whatever the fuck Danger Mouse's car was. Cars were just important to me. I always remembered the cars that friends and family members drove because they were like a character trait. I remember not liking it when someone got a new car that I didn't think fit their personality.
At the end of the day, I've probably just got some car-based autism for some reason, lol.
