Dive summary:
- An analysis of car and light-truck registrations shows that the average age of the vehicles we are driving has definitely gone up since 2006 with pickups getting to 11.4 years in 2013.
- Polk, an automotive data collection-and-analysis firm, found the average for pickup trucks was pretty close to the average: 11.4 years.
- Looked at another way, vehicles in the 6- to 11-year-old category are down while vehicles in the 12-or-older range are getting more numerous.
From the article:
"These are interesting times for the automotive aftermarket," said Mark Seng, vice president of Polk’s aftermarket practice. ...
