{"id":4103,"date":"2026-02-23T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/gen-zers-do-not-know-what-a-car-pull-up-handbrake-is\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:04:56","slug":"gen-zers-do-not-know-what-a-car-pull-up-handbrake-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/gen-zers-do-not-know-what-a-car-pull-up-handbrake-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Zers do not know what a car pull-up handbrake is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-02-23 14:04:54<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Some Gen Zers could not identify a traditional pull-up handbrake.<BR><br \/>\nIn total, 27 per cent of those born between 1997 and 2012 did not know how to keep a car stationary when parked without a simple park brake button, which is featured on most modern cars.<BR><br \/>\nElsewhere in the research commissioned by online car marketplace Cazoo, 40 per cent of young folk had no idea what a car window lever is.<BR><br \/>\nA third of those surveyed could spot car ashtrays, and 41 per cent were able to identify vehicle cigarette lighters.<BR><br \/>\nCharlie Harvey, motoring expert at Cazoo, said: &#8220;Car design has evolved massively in the last 20 years, and it&#8217;s interesting to see how quickly knowledge of obsolete car features has faded.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Some features, such as the choke, are better left in the past, but there are other features that are sorely missed, such as physical tactile buttons and eye-catching, pop-up headlights.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s a sweet spot on the used car market for everyone, be that a car with the latest cutting-edge tech or classic retro design.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-02-23 14:04:54 Some Gen Zers could not identify a traditional pull-up handbrake. In total, 27 per cent of those born between 1997 and 2012 did not know how to keep&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4105,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}