I am not an expert on American car market by any stretch, but I was interested to dig more into the claim about car prices of a certain. So I thought I will ign

I am not an expert on American car market by any stretch, but I was interested to dig more into the claim about car prices of a certain. So I thought I will ignore that specific car brand (grand caravan) and see what data comes up in cars.com. After few searches - to me it seems like SUVs have over taken as a preferred choice and minivans have simply lost appeal. On cars.com for 90001 postcode there are close to 20,000 options for SUVs compared to only about 700 for minivan. And there are lot of SUVs available for less than 15K, where as the grand caravan is from 20K onwards. Essentially, I suspect market is working well in keeping cost of the cars actually getting sold low and minivans are expensive as choices are limited. Macro economics is hard. Author will get lot of different perception if they compared long distance phone calls in 1980s compared to today for example.