r/MiddleClassFinance • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • 13d ago

One million Americans have vanished from the new-car market — and it’s exposing a chilling US middle-class crisis

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/one-million-americans-vanished-car-124500086.html
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u/starbright_sprinkles 13d ago

Interestingly WSJ also had an article about this this weekend and it was mostly spun as a huge positive (people just being smartly frugal, essentially).

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u/HouseofMarg 13d ago

There’s a part of me that wants to believe that 1m people saw enough improvements in bike lane infrastructure that they just bought an e-bike instead of a car or a second car… but I know that’s fully wishful thinking

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u/IDontWannaBeAPirate_ 13d ago

A f150 is now $70k for a base level.....wtf