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It's Almost Impossible To Find A Decent Used Car Under $20,000 (jalopnik.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Vehicles under $15k are 1.6% of the market, and their share of the market has dropped over 90% since 2019. The old advice that you can get a beater and drive it in to the ground for $5k hasn't been true for years but it still seems pervasive in personal finance spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Toyotas and Hondas have pretty huge markups right now. A new Prius for example (in Texas at least) costs 39k (with taxes and everything) for the base trim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm seeing advertisements for MSRP for both Prius and Civic, so ~$30k for 2023 model years for base trim. This is before taxes, just advertised price, so maybe $35k out the door after taxes, registration, fees, etc.

That said, I haven't requested a quote from any local dealers, so those advertised prices could be unrealistic. But advertised prices are down from last year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I went in person last month to two dealerships in my area, and they both had over 5k markups.

They also stated ~30k on their website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lame. It's at least better than a year ago when everything was marked up >$10k.