Opinion: The affordable car is dead. What happened?
This is how cars got so ridiculously, forbiddingly expensive.
From The Times
May 9, 2026

America is a car country. For decades, millions relied on inexpensive cars to get to work and school. But over time, the budget car began to disappear, the economist Clifford Winston writes in Times Opinion.

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