I wasn't on that survey and I'm under 30. I'm guessing the other guy
was from down under? :)
On 24 Mar 2010, at 16:42, "Thomas Witt" <atwittsend@verizon.net> wrote:
> Almost four years ago to the day I did a poll of the average age of
> Tiger owners and years of ownership. For whatever it's worth to the
> subject I thought I would throw the results out again to anyone who
> is new (or forgot - like me). - Tom
>
> REMEMBER THESE ARE MARCH, 2006 RESULTS:
>
> Well..., I had a pocket of time to do some tabulating this afternoon
> (with the
> help of my kids). I was able to use the ages of 105 of you who
> responded.
>
> The youngest owner is - Joey (of course) at 15
>
> The oldest owner is - Bill Carroll at 91 (or soon to be)
>
> There were 2 people under 30
>
> There were 10 people between 30 and 40
>
> There were 28 people between 40 and 50
>
> There were 32 people between 50 and 60
>
> There were 29 people between 60 and 70
>
> There were 3 people between 70 and 80
>
> There were 0 people between 80 and 90
>
> There is 1 person between 90 and 100
>
> And, the average age worked out to be.... 53.3 years old.
>
> If you were 16 (the assumed youngest age to drive) when the Tiger was
> available as a true 1965 model you would be 57 today. That falls
> right into
> the largest age group.
>
> With me at 48 I stand corrected that I am 5+ years under the average
> rather
> than slightly over as I had thought (but why do I feel so old???)
>
> Years of ownership was a bit more difficult with 77 people
> responding. Some
> people went by model year and others by date of purchase. Other
> times I had to
> calculate by age at purchase (or year of purchase) to come up with
> the numbers
> not stated. Others had ownership for more than one car and I only
> took the
> longest. Some people had a break in ownership that was hard to put
> into a
> "real" ownership numbers and I dropped those.
> So, if you feel like you didn't count properly (especially those in
> the 40 +
> category), well... I did the best I could under the circumstances.
> Years of
> ownership was not part of the original question it was only freely
> offered by
> the responder. So this is a "ballpark" figure at best.
>
> The shortest year of ownership was 1
>
> The longest years of ownership was 42
>
> 36 people have owned their cars for 1 to 10 years
>
> 12 people have owned their cars for 11 to 20 years
>
> 9 people have owned their cars for 21 to 30 years
>
> 19 people have owned their cars for 31 to 40 years
>
> 1 person has owner their car for 40+ years
>
> I do find it interesting that the years of ownership was greatest
> for 1 to 10
> years and 31 to 40 years. Also, that nearly 50% of those responding
> owned
> their car for 10 years or less.
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