Commentary: Americans, particularly millennials, have fallen out of love with cars

Car ads sell a romantic fantasy. They often feature a driver on the open road taking the curves along a mountain or speeding through a curiously depopulated urban landscape, rugged and free.

But in the real world, congestion and the high cost of car ownership may have cooled the romance between Americans and their cars, especially for younger adults, according to a national survey.

Almost half of more than 1,000 consumers surveyed do not enjoy most of the time