Laser@lemmy.caM to Cyberstuck@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months ago"Im a real truck"lemmy.caimagemessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1824arrow-down19
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minus-squaremarkovs_gun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·2 months agoFYI according to CPI inflation $2,500 in 1972 is worth about $19,000 today. Based on a comparison of median individual income that would be similar to about $25,000. Either way, the truck cost about the same as a Honda Civic does today.
minus-squareikidd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoI paid less for my first house in 1994 than a cybertruck costs today, in current dollars. Vehicles are insanely expensive in real dollars today.
minus-squaremarkovs_gun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoIt’s more that they’re way bigger and more complicated now. A simple vehicle is still pretty much the same as I showed in my comment,
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agothe car market, especially in america, is completely fucked beyond saving. EVERYTHING is gargantuan and lethal. in a sane world most people should only be driving small electric moped cars.
minus-squarePanArab@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI don’t think you can even get a Chevrolet Colorado for that price. If only Chinese pickups were available in the US.
minus-squaremarkovs_gun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoThe issue is more a market issue than anything. People prefer to buy giant trucks instead of reasonable ones.
minus-squarePanArab@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoIn the US you are mostly true. The Maverick and Santa Cruz shows there’s a market for sensible pickup trucks but it is relatively small.
FYI according to CPI inflation $2,500 in 1972 is worth about $19,000 today. Based on a comparison of median individual income that would be similar to about $25,000. Either way, the truck cost about the same as a Honda Civic does today.
I paid less for my first house in 1994 than a cybertruck costs today, in current dollars.
Vehicles are insanely expensive in real dollars today.
It’s more that they’re way bigger and more complicated now. A simple vehicle is still pretty much the same as I showed in my comment,
the car market, especially in america, is completely fucked beyond saving. EVERYTHING is gargantuan and lethal.
in a sane world most people should only be driving small electric moped cars.
I don’t think you can even get a Chevrolet Colorado for that price. If only Chinese pickups were available in the US.
The issue is more a market issue than anything. People prefer to buy giant trucks instead of reasonable ones.
In the US you are mostly true. The Maverick and Santa Cruz shows there’s a market for sensible pickup trucks but it is relatively small.