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Y'all, the state of inexpensive new vehicles is dismal in the intervening time. In 2020, I ready a abstract of All automobiles left within the US market priced beneath $20,000, and so they had been seventeen. I did one other factor final time, and so they had been six, Now, as a result of the Kia Soul has gone over the $20,000 mark, and the Rio has been scrapped, there are 4. This morning I noticed a tweet from Twitter dingus @GuyDealership (beneath) that mentioned there have been solely 9 automobiles beginning at beneath $25,000, and since it appeared to agree with my already established biases, I initially learn it. Didn't assume something of it. However then it began bothering me. There isn’t any means this might be true. Let's take a look at this somewhat extra deeply.
UPDATE: The $20,890 Nissan Sentra was beforehand not noted of this checklist by mistake. It has been added.
Typically it's good to problem data you see in a tweet, particularly when there isn’t a hyperlink to a supply or any additional rationalization. Beginning with my everlasting checklist of 4 automobiles priced beneath $20,000, I went to every automaker's web site and seemed on the MSRPs of low cost automobiles, added up the whole lot between $20,000 and $25,000, and got here up with the next checklist.
Admittedly, that is nonetheless not a really lengthy checklist. I'm sufficiently old to recollect common on a regular basis automobiles, like those right here, promoting for lower than 10,000 US clams. Rattling it, shit is pricey!