{
  "id": 16186616,
  "title": "The young Americans choosing Y2K cars over shiny new SUVs: ‘I get so much crap from people’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/the-young-americans-choosing-y2k-cars-over-shiny-new-suvs-i-get-so-16186616",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-23T11:30:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/23/y2k-used-cars-gen-z"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "People under 35 are hunting for no-frills rides they can pay for in cash and fix themselves – defying expectations to take on steep loans Jack Price joined the Marines in fall 2021 knowing he would need a car to get around base and that he couldn’t afford a new one. A joyless, month-long search through dealer classifieds and Facebook Marketplace listings ended when his mother spotted a 2010…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}