From Affordable to Unattainable: Cars Are Officially the New Luxury Handbags 🚗

From Affordable to Unattainable: Cars Are Officially the New Luxury Handbags 🚗

Once upon a time — pre-2020 — the average price of a new car hovered around $38,000. Painful, sure, but at least vaguely within reach.

Fast-forward just a few short years, and now? $52,000. For a car. A thing that literally loses value the second you drive it off the lot.

That’s right. Cars have officially gone from “basic transportation” to “you’d better start a GoFundMe.”

The subcompact cars — those tiny, fuel-efficient little hatchbacks once beloved by broke college students and city dwellers — have practically vanished. The cheap sedan? Extinct.

Now? The cheapest Honda starts above $20,000 — and that’s if you’re lucky and don’t blink too hard at the “dealer markup” fine print.

Suddenly, vehicle shopping looks less like “choosing a car” and more like “filing for bankruptcy.”

At this point, it’s only a matter of time before cars start coming with velvet ropes and bouncers. Soon there’ll be influencers posing in front of Civics like they’re Ferraris.

And forget about owning one — the next slippery slope? Subscription cars:

$299/month to sit in it

$199 extra if you actually want the engine to start

Bluetooth connectivity? Oh, that’s premium tier.