That's your anecdotal evidence from the people you know. That's how many? While my own anecdotal evidence of our family would corroborate what you're saying, t

That's your anecdotal evidence from the people you know. That's how many? While my own anecdotal evidence of our family would corroborate what you're saying, the article gives some pretty good anecdotal counter evidence of "the long-term shift to SUVs and pickup trucks doesn't help", which I am definitely seeing with friends and colleagues. There are so many people that don't actually know what their car costs them, because all they look for is the weekly payment. Sure, it's just a hundred bucks or something. But it's per week. Over 96 months. For a used car off a 3 year lease. That is effing expensive! So if we assume that the article is actually based on a much much larger sample I would tend to believe them more than our two anecdata.