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7/21/2025, 2:39:31 AM
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>What gives?
People don't have money anymore. Sure, every poster on /o/ is a tech bro that pulls in $350k+/year if I'm to believe what I read here, but in the real world the average cost of a new car is $50k, with payments regularly ballooning to $1k+, with 84/90+ month loans being taken out to accomplish this. That tells me that many are living beyond their means rather than within them.
When vehicles are being looked at as an even longer-term purchase than ever before (the average age of a car in the US is over 12 years old, the highest it's ever been), your average shopper is thus going to be looking at a "do everything" vehicle rather than something that may be niche, a lifestyle vehicle, a "personal" car or whatever marketing term they're called in the 2020s. Thus, it pushes people away from coupes, and in lots of cases now, away from the few sedans still offered and into crossovers or SUVs. Will you have kids 5+ years from now? Will you live where it snows or floods? Maybe you'll pick up a new outdoorsy hobby? Probably no to all these things - but look at the marketing for any of these "do everything" vehicles and those are the usually what they'll depict.
Honda is literally about to release a new Prelude anyway, which, although people seethe at it having an NPC-tier hybrid powertrain, is a lot closer to what most actually need out of a commuter. I'd rather see a sea of Prelude-like coupes instead of Rav4s and CR-Vs everywhere, personally. I just know that the people that actually should buy it likely won't for reasons I've already mentioned.
>What gives?
People don't have money anymore. Sure, every poster on /o/ is a tech bro that pulls in $350k+/year if I'm to believe what I read here, but in the real world the average cost of a new car is $50k, with payments regularly ballooning to $1k+, with 84/90+ month loans being taken out to accomplish this. That tells me that many are living beyond their means rather than within them.
When vehicles are being looked at as an even longer-term purchase than ever before (the average age of a car in the US is over 12 years old, the highest it's ever been), your average shopper is thus going to be looking at a "do everything" vehicle rather than something that may be niche, a lifestyle vehicle, a "personal" car or whatever marketing term they're called in the 2020s. Thus, it pushes people away from coupes, and in lots of cases now, away from the few sedans still offered and into crossovers or SUVs. Will you have kids 5+ years from now? Will you live where it snows or floods? Maybe you'll pick up a new outdoorsy hobby? Probably no to all these things - but look at the marketing for any of these "do everything" vehicles and those are the usually what they'll depict.
Honda is literally about to release a new Prelude anyway, which, although people seethe at it having an NPC-tier hybrid powertrain, is a lot closer to what most actually need out of a commuter. I'd rather see a sea of Prelude-like coupes instead of Rav4s and CR-Vs everywhere, personally. I just know that the people that actually should buy it likely won't for reasons I've already mentioned.
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