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You still don't get it...

You have the money to do that kind of thing, most other people don't. I don't. Even if I drove 15K a year, wanting a new car in the driveway isn't enough to justify increasing amounts of debt. My ex-wife and I played that game and it's one of the big reasons why we were always flat ass broke.
You can't blame unions either. None of the Japanese, Korean, or German factories in the US use union labor. Most of the cars GM sells in the US, including its $50K pickup trucks, are made offshore by non-union labor. Same with Ford and Stellantis. That savings isn't getting passed along either, not that I can see.
I'm not bitching about "my kind of car" because I like stick shifts and I understand why they aren't made anymore. The problem is this: The average price of a new car has far outstripped inflation over the last ten years. The average monthly payment amount has increased by 25% over that same period of time.
The United States is a country that was re-engineered 65 years ago in a way that just about forces people to own cars. Now we're in a situation where a car is becoming a luxury item. Fewer and fewer people will be able to handle the financial burden of car ownership. Not just new cars but any car, since the average used car price is now just a few tick short of $30K.
The car makers don't care about any of this, as long as profits are up. They've left the door wide open for Chinese carmakers to come in here and kick their asses, just like the Big Three did with the Japanese in the late-1960's.
And I'm all for it.
BTW, if my car was any rust free, mechanically sound vehicle, I'd keep it. A car is just an appliance. All it has to do is get the job done.




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