The German car-maker says its "optional power upgrade" is designed to give customers more choice.

The German car-maker says its “optional power upgrade” is designed to give customers more choice.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 month ago

    When we start decent seeing vehicles to a decent price again,

    I don’t know about the Volkswagen ID.3, but in general, I think that car prices have tended to come down slightly over the years. I was in a conversation earlier about car prices earlier (talking about how truck prices had greatly increased).

    If you go back 20 years, take a pretty plain-Jane standby, the Toyota Camry:

    https://www.kbb.com/toyota/camry/2005/

    2005 Toyota Camry pricing starts at $4,091 for the Camry LE Sedan 4D, which had a starting MSRP of $20,515 when new.

    That’d be $33,934.10 in 2025 dollars.

    A 2025 Camry has an MSRP of $28,700, about 15% lower.

    Pickup trucks — which are considerably more expensive now in the US than they were a few decades back — are an exception to this, but there are other factors going on there.

    EDIT: Though tariffs may wind up driving prices up.