Looking for a new car under $20,000? Good luck. Your choice has dwindled to just one vehicle
Looking for a new car under $20,000? Good luck. Your choice has dwindled to just one vehicle
Just five years ago, a price-conscious auto shopper in the United States could choose from among a dozen new small cars selling for under $20,000.
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.)
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The new 2024 Chevy Trax, which has gotten rave reviews, starts at about $21k.
It is infinitely better vehicle than this Mirage.
Difference is that the number they're looking at is the average sales price. There is a big difference between starting price for a bare-bones option without fees and actual sales price across the model line.
Even a base-model Trax is better equipped than a mid-range Mirage.
A well-equipped Trax can be had for mid 20k. A fully loaded one still comes in at under $27k.
That is a hell of a deal any way you look at it, and yet some people are still somehow complaining about it?! WTF?
Mid 20k is a bit higher than “under 20k” though right?
....so get the base model.
Oh, but I get it. You aren't looking for solutions. You are just looking to complain. Got it!
What's the Nissan versa going for? I thought it was supposed to be cheap as balls too?
Fuck Nissan and their shitty transmissions