In juxtaposing the youth athletes of our grandparents' generation with those of the modern era, we're essentially comparing Volkswagen Beetles to Hummers..
If you juxtapose two contrasting objects, images, or ideas, you place them together or describe them together, so that the differences between them are emphasized. The technique Mr Wilson uses most often is to juxtapose things for dramatic effect Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror. art's oldest theme: the celebration of life juxtaposed with the terror of mortality. to put things together, especially things that are not normally together, in order to compare them or to make something new juxtapose sth with sth (Probably from juxtaposition (17-21 centuries), from juxta + position)