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Trump's automobile tariffs are in the process of making this problem even worse.

They are not hard to find you just have to go to China.

This article is incoherent. The opening anecdote explicitly states that Ford doesn't sell sedans anymore, so most of these "cars" are trucks. It also says that a 1989 Crown Vic, adjusted for inflation, would cost over $65K. Just terrible writing.

Did you look at inflation?

As someone who hasn't owned a car in almost 20 years, I would say, You are asking the wrong question.

Yup and it's time to allow Chinese made cars into the United States. If Canada can do it then so can we. After all, doesn't having more choices drive lower prices? (No pun intended). According to Capitalists it does. What people are paying for news cars in the USA is legalized predatory pricing.

Are you sure you wouldn't rather have 10 ten year old Ford focuses instead?

Aside from the flaws with this comparison, I unironically agree with it.

I bought a base Subaru Impreza 2 years ago for $23K. It does everything it needs to do and it's built really well.

The article is lying with stats for this exact reason. They went with purchases, not availability bc people wanting to spend less on a car are buying used to avoid the surveillance, security risks. The wealthy either buy cars without surveillance features bc they are wealthy, or don't care bc same.

The Mexican electric vehicles are cooler than anything on the American market - and much cheaper. It would be worth it to fly down there, buy one, and drive it back home.

When I bought my current car, I was willing to spend an extra $10k for a nicer car with more features. If I’m dumping $30k plus into something, I want to invest more into getting something nicer.

It never made sense to buy a new car if you are price conscious. Just buy a used EV, they are the best value available.

Early 2000s I believe you could buy a new Kia for 5k

The billionaires aren’t hurting. #TaxTheBillionaires

#BYD

Americans would just buy even more expensive cars.

The average car has gone up in price maybe 5% over the last decade (adjusted for inflation) and that’s mostly because we switched to bigger vehicles Traditional passenger cars dropped from ~40% to ~25% of the market

Who knew that giant steel behemoths that burn gas like it’s free would be expensive?

the roads will still exist regardless, for cargo trucks that need to move goods around. because of the fourth power of weight rule those trucks do the vast majority of damage to the road

Wow who could have seen this coming

You are really bad at looking if you missed that LMAO