Nevertheless, Wally Neil's father Dan, a motoring writer for the Wall Street Journal, is convinced that "American youth have fallen out of love with automobiles" because of the rising cost of motoring and the fact that they are "living their lives online".

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There would appear to be little common ground between Vice, a bawdy catalog of the dangerously exotic fringes of global youth culture, and the Paris Review, and esteemed literary journal, but Rocco Castoro, the editor of Vice, said "the staffs of our publications run in the same circles" and called himself an avid reader of the Paris Review.

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