I had the same thought. You can actually look up the inflation data by category: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/find-me-the-cpi-inflation-data-hk6zkqNORYysx4

I had the same thought. You can actually look up the inflation data by category: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/find-me-the-cpi-inflation-data-hk6zkqNORYysx4AFqxUDtQ https://www.perplexity.ai/search/find-me-the-cpi-inflation-d... New cars actually match the total average inflation the closest of any categories (22.3% for new cars vs 22.1% all items). Also interesting to note that food is up 30.7%, transport is up 39.5 % and shelter is up 27.6% in the past 5 years!