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Decoy Flight Attendant
@jw1958.bsky.social

It’s the opportunity cost of stupid tariffs. US plants with higher costs have limited capacity & resources so build big cars with large profit margins. Demand for small, cheaper cars was met by low cost plants: Mexico, Asia etc (maintaining healthy profit margins) with few small cars built in US

Decoy Flight Attendant
@jw1958.bsky.social

Now: to maintain profits with limited resources/capacity, manufacturers focus on large/‘luxury‘ vehicles. Poorer consumers or people who only want small inexpensive urban vehicles can fuck off Buy a bike - electric is the new utility vehicle: and you get to fuck big auto and big oil as a bonus.

Eric Budd
@ericmbudd.com

most important thing to understand about the graph of increasing car prices: these are all adjusted for inflation. I presume because manufacturers are intentionally building bigger and more-featured cars, but also that profit margin is higher