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b_b · 3080 days ago · link · · parent · post: Research shows the number of U.S. upper middle class households has more than doubled since 1979
Yeah and your '66 Mustang might have died on the way home from the lot! Quality in manufacturing (planned obsolescence aside) is so many light-years beyond what it was even 30 years ago that it's hard to compare. A Yaris may cost what a Cadillac did in '67, but the Yaris is going to last 200k miles without blinking, and with the most minimal care possible. Value is difficult to judge, because we all want different things, but I think cars are objectively better value now than then (subjectively speaking, of course).