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Or you could get a Mini Cooper today for around 16.000 pounds. In the 1960s you could get a Trabant for less than than the Mini too if you're comparing English

• GFischer 10y ago
  The point I was trying to make is that "automation and technology" can lower prices. The current Mini is nothing like the old Mini, it has billions of features more (exactly the point you were making in the original post I replied to). I can't find any sources, but I strongly suspect that an inflation-adjusted Trabant would be much more expensive than a Dacia Sandero. Edit: I found some sources which confirm my hunch. A Trabant would be 11.000 pounds today if bought at East Germany prices, and 5.500 pounds if bought at West Germany (subsidized) price. The same source says that the Mini destroyed the Trabant market, they competed at similar price points. A Maruti 800, which would be a much better comparison to the 60s Mini or Trabant, should probably cost about 4000 pounds in the U.K. Source for Trabant prices: http://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com.uy/2014/01/trabant-east-german-peoples-car.html http://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com.uy/2014/01/trabant-east-g...