Wait, is that car price accurate? I was always told that for some random reason cars in the USA were the only thing they had cheap. Might as well import a Geely or Lada at that point… oh wait.
You can get a brand new compact car in the low $20,000 range. But those kinds of cars weren’t really a thing in the early 70s as far as I know, so maybe they’re trying to do a more apples-to-apples comparison with a big ass sedan with a big engine. Even then though, I’d think $35,000 or so would be a more reasonable figure.
With that said, I’m not sure what $30,000 bought you in 1973, but $400,000 feels pretty low to me if you want to live anywhere near a city and don’t want to spend multiple hours per day driving to your job.
Depends on the car really the one used in the graph was probably a crossover SUV or a pickup truck, but I think the people who mentioned the cheap cars were talking about the used market but even that is going up.
Might as well import a Geely or Lada at that point… oh wait.
There’s a car import law in the US that only allows cars older than 25 years to be imported, so it’s impossible to import a Geely, but still possible to import a Lada
Wait, is that car price accurate? I was always told that for some random reason cars in the USA were the only thing they had cheap. Might as well import a Geely or Lada at that point… oh wait.
You can get a brand new compact car in the low $20,000 range. But those kinds of cars weren’t really a thing in the early 70s as far as I know, so maybe they’re trying to do a more apples-to-apples comparison with a big ass sedan with a big engine. Even then though, I’d think $35,000 or so would be a more reasonable figure.
With that said, I’m not sure what $30,000 bought you in 1973, but $400,000 feels pretty low to me if you want to live anywhere near a city and don’t want to spend multiple hours per day driving to your job.
Depends on the car really the one used in the graph was probably a crossover SUV or a pickup truck, but I think the people who mentioned the cheap cars were talking about the used market but even that is going up.
There’s a car import law in the US that only allows cars older than 25 years to be imported, so it’s impossible to import a Geely, but still possible to import a Lada