Lowest-Priced New Vehicles for 2006

MSN Money ^ | 11 OCT 05 | by Ann Job

[RadioAstronomer]

Whooohooo! The start of an FR Corvette club. LOL!

[DeFault User]

Ahh those good ole days I heard about as a kid ;)

They were gooder than you remember. My dad got a '50 Pontiac for $2800, a '67 Ford for $2700. I bought at least 3 new cars in the '70s for less than $4,000. Then we got Jimmy Carter and hyper inflation.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Subaru 360?
A buddy had one, and I could lift the front or rear end off the ground by hand.
That car(?) would take most turns on three wheels, two if you pushed it!

[Rocketwolf68]

I agree. The first time I had to go a big salvage yard to get parts, I got to see the ugly truth about wrecked small automobiles and I swore from then on I was going to drive midsize or larger vehicle (currently in a big GMC truck). They don't call 'em tin cans for nothing, the stains on the seats were testament to the uselessness of airbags and antilock brakes when you get clobbered by a semi.

[mvpel]

With a starting manufacturer's suggested retail price of less than $10,000, the 2006 Chevrolet Aveo is the lowest-priced new car in the United States. Low price doesn't mean skimping on safety equipment anymore; some lowest-priced new cars include six standard airbags.

And at about $500 a pop, that adds up to $3,000 out of the price of the car. Gotta wonder about the rest of it when government airbag bombs are over 30% of the price of the car.

[.cnI redruM]

It makes me think of a line from The Graduate. "Plastics, my Boy, plastics."