The high cost of maintaining a car, fuel and other expenses involved make young Brazilians opt for transportation and vehicle rental applications.
A survey conducted in Brazil showed that 62% of young people prefer to give up buying a car to use car services. app transportation or renting a car for travel.
The Global Automotive Consumer Study: Future of Automotive Technologies revealed that 62% of young people rent cars, use sharing services (like Uber) and consider the purchase of a car unnecessary. Analyzing the general sample of all ages, in 2021, 55% of Brazilians question the need to own a car.
According to Fenabrave (National Federation of Vehicle Distribution), vehicle sales did not plummet due to the growth in demand of cars for application services.
“A young person buying a car today is no longer the rule, it is the exception.”
A car has many expenses that go beyond the purchase; , make it difficult to buy a car. “It is more feasible to ride an Uber or have a rental car than to buy a car and die paying financing. There are fees, like IPVA, you have to spend on gas. It is much more feasible to pay Uber and at the end of the month to have money left over, ”said businessman Marcelo Barbosa to the newspaper https://www.acritica.com/.
