Vehicles under $15k are 1.6% of the market, and their share of the market has dropped over 90% since 2019. The old advice that you can get a beater and drive it in to the ground for $5k hasn’t been true for years but it still seems pervasive in personal finance spaces.

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Cash for clunkers and other programs killed the used market.

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That ended 14 years ago.

The car companies just moved up market, nobody cares about affordable cars.

Then inflation didn’t help.

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How old do you think the $5k cars would be if they were on the market?

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I won’t say it didn’t hurt, but the article is about 15k cars.

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This is not true, the used market was still great pre-covid. COVID obliterated new vehicle pricing and availability, and naturally the used market followed

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