Is ride-hailing a step closer to personal car use? Exploring associations between car-based ride-hailing and car ownership and use aspirations among young adults

•Explores the association between car-based ride-hailing use and car ownership and use aspirations.•Individuals perceive close similarities between car-based ride-hailing and private car use.•Ride-hailing fulfils immediate preference for car-based transport and explains car ownership and use aspirations.•Instrumental and social-symbolic values explain desire for car ownership.•A dissonance between pro-environmental attitudes and desire for car ownership.