Meh, its a nonsense argument though. Teenagers and young adults are known for doing irresponsible things with whatever is around at the time, on planet earth, since the beginning of time. It's always funny to me (I'm 40 next year) to hear people my age giving out about the kids today when they're not half the dumb asses their parents were at that age. Go back a generation before that and you've got the fruit cases that raced cars that were held together by twine and dying every other day of the week. Keep going back and you end up with teenagers in charge of armies of stabby gentlemen rampaging across continents.
Unfortunately your're right. But what nearly drives me crazy is how many people still don't get/know that it is not the game devs or publishers who are responsible for the absence of Toyota and Lexus road cars :/
Are you sure about that?? I just turned 20 and I'm a passionate Sim Racer myself (might not have the best setup currently bacause of money reasons but I'm still spending the biggest part of the time in simulators). However if I'm not in the mood for sim racing or exhausted etc. I really do enjoy driving some more or less simple arcade games.
So because their parents and their grandparents were irresponsible aswell, the current generation should be allowed to be irresponsible aswell or nothing should be done about it? What kind of excuse is that? If anything, that should be the reason for advocating for better driving standards in the US (and to a degree, worldwide) and more training on road safety classes. There are multiple examples of yound adults aged 26 and below owning/driving cars they are not able to handle and causing fatal crashes, in which not only them but innocent bystanders/drivers lose their lives. A lot of it is fueled by being reckless on the road because nobody tells them any better.
No, that wasn't my point. My point is teenagers are doing nothing that they haven't been doing since the beginning of time. Sorry if my post came off as directed at you, it was a general rant aimed at no one in particular, one of the side affects of getting old.
Why would I disagree? The funny thing about those boy racers here in Ireland is our roads (outside of towns and cities) don't suit these high powered slammed cars. They have to crawl around at a snails pace so their cars don't bottom out on bumpy Irish roads while I fly by in my 15 year old diesel van.
While the parents are ultimately responsible we can't just lump all the blame on them. Humans are social creatures and for as long as we've been civilised the children of a group belong to the group more than any individual parent. So it is a problem for the greater society not just the parents, it's always taken a village to raise a child, just lumping all the blame on parents doesn't do anything to fix the problems.
Completely agree, I think children are a massive untapped potential, they can change everything in a generation. They adapt instantly. I think the previous generation will always be a brake holding them back though, perhaps a good thing in some ways, but also a big obstacle to making necessary change.
Agreed on all points, except the Volvo knock. Volvo and Polestar are (is?) the only companies consistently making attractive vehicles right now. If Polestar makes a car styled like the Polestar 1 but shrunk down to the size of a BRZ and rear wheel drive I'd be all over it; hybrid or electric.
Frankly most of the cars in your list don't interest me, really. I'd happily take a Volvo V60 Polestar over anything from Porsche or Ferrari. Except, maybe, the F355.
That all being said, what they've done to that poor Polestar for NFS brings a tear to my eye. Poor girl. Wasn't long for this world. I'd much rather she appears in Assetto Corsa, as stock. Or a proper GT variant.
