New cars and trucks are stupidly expensive these days. While wages have been stagnant for almost a decade plus now, the price of everything else hasn't slowed down in its ever-thrusting upward expansion. And that includes the vehicles we drive every day. It's getting to a breaking point, though.
New vehicle sales have drastically fallen—the average age of a car on the road is now 13 years old—which has led automakers to scramble to restart sedan production, figure out ways of lowering prices, reduce trim levels on models, wholesale cut large parts out of their lineups, and see how they can get a depressed buying public to buy new things again.
