At a time when Americans increasingly want pricey SUVs and trucks rather than small cars, the Mirage remains the lone new vehicle whose average sale price is under 20 grand — a figure that once marked a kind of unofficial threshold of affordability. With prices — new and used — having soared since the pandemic, $20,000 is no longer much of a starting point for a new car.

This current version of the Mirage, which reached U.S. dealerships a decade ago, sold for an average of $19,205 last month, according to data from Cox Automotive. (Though a few other new models have starting prices under $20,000, their actual purchase prices, with options and shipping, exceed that figure.)

  • @escaped_cruzader
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    101 year ago

    It’s still cheap, only 20x the minimum wage

    At least if you consider that in my country the cheapest is 50x the minimum wage

    • @SCB
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      21 year ago

      The minimum wage is not $1,000 anywhere in the United States.

      At the absolute worst min wage, the car is 2x the minimum wage.

    • @ech0
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      01 year ago

      How are people up voting this. Can people not do 1st grade basic math? This is just incorrect

      • @CluckN
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        01 year ago

        Maybe the car is 0 dollars then the math checks out.