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Originally Posted by motorhead
You need to read this. Your numbers don't tell the real story. I know from living through all those years that buying a nice car back then was much easier for a lot more people than it is now. It's out of hand. If you can't see that then you have to be too young to have lived it or you are just very naive, and if you think a 2017 Camaro will last for ever being used as a daily driver just by maintaining it, you are naive. Car are made more disposable today then ever before.
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Your comment about cars being more disposable doesn't reflect reality.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...-too/30821191/
Pretty much every statistic I can find shows that cars are lasting longer, are being better built, and the cost of which has been holding to inflation for the make-model for Camaro at least... yet the features and performance has drastically increased compared to what was available back in the 4,3,2,and 1st generation.
What I think you mean is that American culture has become addicted to a disposable economy. They may get rid of their car for another, but that car is still on the road under a new owner. And it stays on the road on avg significantly longer than cars from back in the day.
So if car prices have been keeping up with inflation (and at least with the camaro it basically has compared to 2001), then the real impact to disposable income would be other things like housing, family costs etc.