What is your age?
 

You don't have to post if you don't want to identify yourself with your
age, but please vote (it's anonymous). I'm curious about the age statistics of the ecomodder. Just to make things interesting, I'll guess that 45-50 will be the mode of this distribution (i.e. most populated age range).

By the way, that first category should say "20 or under"...brain flatulence.

Also, I didn't choose to make 61+ as the last category, I'd have preferred to keep breaking it down 61-65, 66-70, 71-75, 76-80, 81+, but they only allow 10 categories and having larger ranges fuzzifies the data too much.

...and I just turned 43.

-Tim

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25 here. For some reason i think most here would be a little older, but not that old. I would think late 30s to 50s, but i could be wrong.

I have a feeling it will be around 32 average.

That's about what my impression is too, but so far you guys are proving me wrong.

22 here.

i;;m 102 yrs old!
i would like add i voted honestly.

Going to be 40 soon :(

15, 16 in September. Getting my first car so I can hyper mile then. I may end up getting a car for a year, then getting a newer car, like a Cruze(to comply with my dads pure distaste for buying new cars), that I really want.

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Your dad's a smart man. Always, always, always let someone else take that first year or two of depreciation. Back in May 2009, we bought my wife a 2009 Impala that was used and had 7K miles on it but it was GM-certified (extra 12 mo./12K mile warranty). We saved ~$10K and have more warranty than if we'd have bought a new Impala. Automobile depreciation is one of the biggest wealth wasters of middle-class Americans. Make sure you're on the good end of that depreciation.

Voted 31-35 since I'll be in that range in 3 weeks.
25 voters so far and the average is lower than I suspected (35-45 range). This kinda makes me feel old...

What are you, suspectnumber961's younger brother?

I agree completely. New cars are the biggest waste of money.

Born November 1950.

regards
Mech

...geez, guys, on the "bell curve" of ecommoders, I'm beginning to feel like an "...outlier!"

Yeah, so far the distribution is obliterating my impression of the ecomodder demographic. It's a good sign, actually. Young people taking the initiative to learn about fuel efficiency... There may be hope for our country yet.

Going to turn 32 in April myself. but have been hypermiling and ecomodding since I was 16.

I wonder if we are "outliers" in the ecomodders sense, or if it's just that guys our age just don't spend as much time on the internet as the young turks?

...I've already gone through the "hot rodding", "family wagons" and "sedans" eras, and am now in my "eco" period of life.

...some by choice, others by necessity.

I'm still stuck in the hot-rodding/family-wagon period with my Trailblazer SS.
We had to have a truck to pull our camper so I figured if I'm going to have
a truck that gets 15-20 mpg, it might as well be a hot rod too, and there was
no price difference, so why not?

Truth be told, I've always had a dichotic personality on my cars.
I had a '98 Chevy Metro the same time I had a suped up '96 5.7L Impala SS,
and I loved them both for different reasons. Since I live closer to work now
(8 miles), it doesn't make sense to own a Metro anymore (it'd be just taking it away from someone who lives 25+ miles from work).

To appeal to my eco-sense (and because my wife loves landscaping), I bought the manual pickup truck. That way my wife has her hauler and I can
have a vehicle I can ecomod/hypermile and shoot for 30+ mpg.

I'm turning 30 this year. This forum feels older than most other automotive forums out there.

...remember the "The Graduate"'s one word of wisdom? -- plastics!

...well, here, it might be: wisdom?

That's partly due to the subject matter being discussed.

It's not what is discussed, it's how.
And that's the beauty of it:D

I'm 57. I think it's great that there seem to be a younger profile to the general Ecomodder. It gives me a bit of hope. I've been working on getting better mileage in a variety of car's. I would like to typically be driving my 89 Honda wagon, but it's disgruntled, so I'm driving a 94 Toyota Camry. It really does Ok, but it still just really bothers me to be handing over the money it takes to fill it, more frequently, for fewer miles.

If I were dyslexic, I would've turned 15 last month.;)

...ah, ha! I see there are TWO (2) of us wisdom-drenced "outliers" now.

I'll be getting my drivers license in June.

Wow, I am actually in the majority here at 21. I wouldn't figure too many kids my age would be into "economy". :)

I think it's surprised all of us.

...saying: DEMOGRAPHICS isn't just for Democrats (or Republicans)!

no, no. you see, it's just a small universe.

33 here.

Doesn't surprise me that it's mostly the younger crowd here. First, the younger crowd is usually more into digging up stuff on the net and feel more free to experiment. The older crowd is usually more like "what the **** are you driving?" or "how did you find that, and how do you even work that computer?". Also, the younger crowd usually has more free time to experiment with things. As you get older, the responsibilites tend to add up. My opinion anyway.

You have a valid point!

...as a 'self-appointed' spokesperson for the "oldest crowd" (one-of-two, so far), I don't buy that stereotyping.

...I say we're just "glued" to our old chariots and afraid the Metamucil will 'kick-in' while we're driving slowly (Mother Natural doesn't simply "call," she screams!) to concentrate on MPG's versus where's the "...closest off-ramp leading to a public restroom" (wink,wink).

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me too.. I often think the 36-40 group is the last to have a vivid memory of all the changes you went through as adult. The 60s cars were very much on the road for some years into the 70s, even the badly mauled northeast.

see.. in 75, at two years old I remember my first ride, a beetle. My dad had a gigantic plymouth wagon..colassal...all that is long gone.

It seems as though after I turned 30, thinking of age does not matter...vivid memories do, more and more.

The choice for ecomod I could guess was not simply to jump behind the wheel of a FWD transverse machine.. I could guess my age group has a few more thoughts about the whole fiasco...as if older.

I'm 65.I get money from the gov'mint for doing nothing!Gotta love it.

Phil

...right now, I'm just TIRED.

...later, when I'm done working to make other people rich, I'll still be TIRED, but because it's the "2nd time around" I'll be RE-TIRED.

...or, is RE-TIREMENT when you put a 3rd 'spare' tire on a car after a flat?

It looks like the age distribution is bimodal. The major peak being around 21-30 and the
minor peak being 46-50. My guess is the dip in the middle, 31-45, is due to those being the major child-rearing years and they have a lot less time to spend in the garage.

FIFTY NINE TODAY!!!!!!
I DO NOT drive with my turn signal on for miles...
I DO NOT drive a Buick (but the new ones are a LOT nicer now that they dropped those port holes and have less chrome)
I DO have a 36 year old wife that looks like she's in her 20's
I DO get tired of young and ignorant guys asking if they can date my daughter
I DO have a 3 1/2 year old son that people assume is my grandkid
I DO NOT need male enhancing drugs
I DO need Flomax
I am SHOCKED at the ages on this forum...but happy about it