[Spivak]

This article is kinda missing it. New vehicles are have always been a luxury for people with money to waste. Unless you get some crazy deal and financing they're never a good financial decision.

Well that used to be true, the actual painful thing going on with the car market right now is that in some ridiculous twist of events is that used costs more than new for a lot of vehicles. So yes new cars are more expensive, but used cars are a lot more expensive which hollows out the market that serves the average car buyer.