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If you are going to compare prices today to prices "back then", it's not a fair comparison. Manufacturing methods have changed so much that it takes less time and work to do more. Some claim that shipping has gone up too. Well, I own a small (shrinking???) trucking company, and I have not been able to increase my rates since 9/11/2001, except for a few pennies to cover the fuel increase. Most trucking companies are in the same boat. <br />In 1979, I ordered a new Cutlass Supreme, loaded, for around $7k. I was making $22k a year. If someone is working that same line of work now, they are probably making $40-50k, but that car is now $30-35k. The income hasn't quite doubled, but the car has risen to 4 or 5 times the cost. <br />Things go up, some with inflation, some because noone thinks before they spend. A new car used to be an everyday necessity when I was growing up. Now the only way many can afford a new car is to lease one, because they can't afford the payments of a purchase. Prices rise to what the market will bear, but the market is becoming full of idiots that think owning something is much more valuable than actually getting a good deal.
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