[Karrot_Kream]

Look at [1] and you see it's the average across the US. It's more expensive than that in many states. Unless you're discounting the purchase price/monthly loan payment/lease price.

[1]: https://www.move.org/average-cost-owning-a-car/#data

[mwint]

Key word there is probably average. Median would be more interesting.

[Karrot_Kream]

New Mexico is sitting at the median (spot 25, so not quite, need to average out the two middles) at $5,063.78.

[mwint]

The median of a list of averages is not the median of the population.