At a time when Americans increasingly want pricey SUVs and trucks rather than small cars, the Mirage remains the lone new vehicle whose average sale price is under 20 grand — a figure that once marked a kind of unofficial threshold of affordability. With prices — new and used — having soared since the pandemic, $20,000 is no longer much of a starting point for a new car.

This current version of the Mirage, which reached U.S. dealerships a decade ago, sold for an average of $19,205 last month, according to data from Cox Automotive. (Though a few other new models have starting prices under $20,000, their actual purchase prices, with options and shipping, exceed that figure.)

  • @SeducingCamel@lemm.ee
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    101 year ago

    I’m making way more money as an EE than when I was a teen making minimum wage at a factory. That shit is grueling and far from no effort

    • Illecors
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      61 year ago

      Clearly you’ve put effort into becoming an EE. Clearly it has paid back. I don’t see why you’re arguing.

      • @SeducingCamel@lemm.ee
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        101 year ago

        I don’t see why I wouldn’t want my fellow man who is struggling in the system to do better just because I went into huge debt to be an EE

        • Illecors
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          31 year ago

          Nobody wants your fellow man struggling in the system whether you went into debt or not. Some fellow men, however, are blood sucking assholes living off others’ effort.