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Am I the only one that thinks the pricing on cars these days is ridiculous!? $100k for a car? I guess that’s what you get for printing money for over a decade.
by unboxingelf 4y ago
Am I the only one that thinks the pricing on cars these days is ridiculous!? $100k for a car? I guess that’s what you get for printing money for over a decade.
- rocket_surgeron 4y agoThe cheaper EVs like the Chevy Bolt start at $26,500. To put the $26,500 in perspective, in 1972 that would have been $3,700. That's within the same ballpark of a 1972 Ford Torino with some options (like air conditioning). Unless you really need that extra 20 cubic feet of cargo capacity, the Bolt is superior in nearly every aspect. I picked 1972 because that was the last year before the oil crisis, which caused car prices to start skyrocketing year-over-year until the late 90s. The Lucid Air is a low-production (fewer than Porsche 911s) luxury/performance sedan that exceeds most performance figures of supercars from the 90s/2000s and is not a valid price floor to compare against. There are plenty of inexpensive cars. The Chevy Spark is cheaper today than almost any car in US history, even stripped-down VW Beetles from the 60s and 70s-- which had been the cheapest bare-bones cars in the US for decades. If you go to a lot asking for a Spark the salespeople will do the "jump in the air and kick their heels together" thing because lots are full of them, rotting away. People don't want cheap cars, though.