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Nicholas Morine

What Owning a Car Meant in 1985 vs. 2026 — Let’s Break Down the Costs

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While 1985 might seem like yesterday to some of us — glam rock blasting over the radio, hair spray lingering in the air and an Atari 2600 (or a Nintendo, if Christmas was coming and you were lucky) beeping and blooping away on a floor-model TV nearby — it’s been nearly a half-century since those heady days.

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