inflation calculator

This is a bad metric. Inflation calculators use a standard set of goods some, like the current housing bubble, severely ballooned and affected the index a lot vs others, and doesn’t account for income.

The 1996 Geo Prizm I bought for $15k (my first brand new car), doesn’t look like such a good value anymore!

That was a bad value then. In 2003 I bought a brand new, totally optioned out (leather, mach 1000 subwoofers in the trunk, factory racing stripes and painted wheels 40th anniversary) V6 mustang for $15k.

Non sequitur. No economic system prioritizes the environment.

Top off, couldn’t care at all. Top on, time to pull the door apart.

Interior materials was the big reason why I didn’t buy a BMW M440i. Shitty feeling and shitty fitted vinyl seats and rattly piano gloss plastic, and things like the seat belt loop stalk made out of cheap injection molded plastic.

Just a bunch of rattle, ugly, breakable junk in a $70k+ car.