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Ford releasing a supercar Mustang Thursday 17th
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<blockquote data-quote="svtfocus2cobra" data-source="post: 16947504" data-attributes="member: 21786"><p>That's the point, no one makes anything affordable because inflation has ****ed everything up and wages aren't keeping pace. Just look at the cost of trucks in general. I was making good money too but I couldn't afford to buy a new $40-50k Mustang GT which is actually still cheap by historical standards. </p><p></p><p>When you adjust for inflation the prices are still close now to what they were in the early 2000s, 1990s, etc. $50k now was equivalent to $25k in 1995, $30k in 2000, and about $5200 in 1965. So there's been a pretty big increase since 60s prices, but there has been considerably more equipment required to build cars since then that have driven prices up as well. Just out of curiosity I looked up the MSRP of a 1969 Boss 429 and it would have been $41k if sold today. The fact that a 2023 Mustang GT starts at $39k MSRP is actually pretty impressive and even still the 2024 starts at $41k... for almost 500hp too!</p><p></p><p> There's just so much cool shit out there that is far more expensive that the GT is not as desirable because you want the top of the line, but shit is expensive today due to our own irresponsible government, but also because the market is demanding it. I do wish that there was a cheaper option and I think Ford should come out with something that is smaller and competes with the 86/BRZ, Miata, or all of the small sport compacts. I'd like to see the RS200 be reincarnated even with the turbo mid engine and AWD, but I don't see how something like that could ever be cheap though. </p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=25000.00&year1=199501&year2=202307[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svtfocus2cobra, post: 16947504, member: 21786"] That's the point, no one makes anything affordable because inflation has ****ed everything up and wages aren't keeping pace. Just look at the cost of trucks in general. I was making good money too but I couldn't afford to buy a new $40-50k Mustang GT which is actually still cheap by historical standards. When you adjust for inflation the prices are still close now to what they were in the early 2000s, 1990s, etc. $50k now was equivalent to $25k in 1995, $30k in 2000, and about $5200 in 1965. So there's been a pretty big increase since 60s prices, but there has been considerably more equipment required to build cars since then that have driven prices up as well. Just out of curiosity I looked up the MSRP of a 1969 Boss 429 and it would have been $41k if sold today. The fact that a 2023 Mustang GT starts at $39k MSRP is actually pretty impressive and even still the 2024 starts at $41k... for almost 500hp too! There's just so much cool shit out there that is far more expensive that the GT is not as desirable because you want the top of the line, but shit is expensive today due to our own irresponsible government, but also because the market is demanding it. I do wish that there was a cheaper option and I think Ford should come out with something that is smaller and competes with the 86/BRZ, Miata, or all of the small sport compacts. I'd like to see the RS200 be reincarnated even with the turbo mid engine and AWD, but I don't see how something like that could ever be cheap though. [URL unfurl="true"]https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=25000.00&year1=199501&year2=202307[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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