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Re:Why the $25,000 car is going extinct by bluefirebrand on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:28PM (#44425834)
> I don't know that you can do much better these days, and it doesn't feel unreasonable

It's pretty unreasonable as a class of "starter car" though

I can't imagine many teens working a min wage job for a summer and having a car afterwards if they cost like this

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Re:Why the $25,000 car is going extinct by BobaFloutist on Monday June 30, 2025 @02:46PM (#44426537)
Oh, sure, I was thinking of a car relatively comfortable parents could get a kid without overspending or spoiling too much, it's not super in reach for a kid working part time.
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Re:Why the $25,000 car is going extinct by bluefirebrand on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @12:38AM (#44430631)
Even expecting parents to buy the car for their kid is kinda weird to me really

I had to get my own job and save to buy my own first car. It was 2k

If it had been 10k it would have taken forever to afford on part time minimum wage

My parents definitely did not have a spare 10k laying around to buy me a car. And if a family has more than one child, then what?

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Re:Why the $25,000 car is going extinct by BobaFloutist on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:34AM (#44434298)
Sure, totally. I was perhaps assuming a certain level of affluence from a HN commenter discussing buying a car for their daughter, but it's true that I described a heavily used premium economy car rather than the complete "at-least-it-starts" clunker that represents the actual bottom of the market.
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