Would you rather take public transport than a car?

Would you rather take public transport than a car?

58 percent of Austrians rely on a car in everyday life. Those who are not well connected to public transport attach the most importance to their own car. For the trend study, Integral market and opinion research surveyed 501 Austrian car owners between the ages of 18 and 69 online, representative of this target group. 9 out of 10 of these people rate it as essential to have a car, two thirds of them as very important and around a quarter as somewhat important. Anyone who has a good connection to the public transport network has a different perspective: only 4 out of 10 people are very concerned about owning a car, while a third find it rather important. So it's no surprise that Viennese attach particularly little importance to having their own car when compared to other federal states. Owning one is very important to only a quarter, and somewhat more important to a third (35 percent).

Many Austrians can agree that a car is not just a means of transport, but also has a lot of emotions associated with it. So it's no surprise that the emotional connection to the wheeled vehicle is very high in this country, as the results of the AutoScout24 trend study show. Accordingly, 8 out of 10 people say it is important to them to own a car. More than half (52 percent) find it very important, 29 percent rather important. It is interesting that age also determines the relationship with the car. In comparison, car ownership is the least important issue in the 18 to 29 year old age group. 39 percent say having their own car is very important, 34 percent find it rather important. Those over 30, on the other hand, have a very high emotional attachment to a vehicle: 55 percent (30 - 49 years) and 56 percent (50 - 69 years) say that owning a car is very important to them.