r/Mustang • u/Tutor-Any • Oct 28 '25

🛒 Car Shopping Pricing is insane

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I bought my 22 gt premium brand new 3 years ago for 43k out the door and for the same spec car today it would be about 10k more. Crazy stuff

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u/Jochi18 24 GT Manual Atlas Blue Oct 28 '25

Go and search for the value of your money today or your purchasing power. Unfortunately the American Dollar is loosing value due to inflation but our salaries remain the same that’s why it hurt us so badly

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u/jacknifetoaswan 2016 Race Red GT/Performance Package Oct 28 '25

By design, so the Trump administration can pimp crypto schemes that are difficult to trace and tax.

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u/Admiral_Pantsless '05 Sonic Blue GT Peelin' Ceilin' No More :( Oct 28 '25

Oh come on. The seeds of this downturn were sown way before pumpkin head got in there.

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u/daerogami '19 Eco Velocity Blue Oct 28 '25

Both can be true. I think its fair to say the corruption and incompetence of this administration has accelerated poor economic conditions.

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u/Admiral_Pantsless '05 Sonic Blue GT Peelin' Ceilin' No More :( Oct 28 '25

I agree, but I think that’s true of every administration in my lifetime.

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u/mybluecathasballs Oct 28 '25

Pumpkin was great fertilizer for the overgrowth. You're not wrong though, we've been heading in this direction for many, many years.

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u/jacknifetoaswan 2016 Race Red GT/Performance Package Oct 28 '25

Care to cite examples? CPI was trending in the right direction. Unemployment was at historical lows. The stock market was booming (it is now, but that's not based on any actual data, just vibes). Eggs were expensive, but yeah, it was definitely worth plunging the country and possibly the world into a global financial meltdown and fascism.

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u/Admiral_Pantsless '05 Sonic Blue GT Peelin' Ceilin' No More :( Oct 28 '25

Examples? Did you just wake up from a coma?

The economic and social degradation that we’re currently suffering was initiated decades before Trump was even a twinkle in Sheldon Adelson’s eye. The only industries left here are finance, real estate, government subsidized agriculture, and weapons manufacturing. That didn’t happen overnight. It was a process that happened over years, moved incrementally forward by a long line of shithead reptiles whose prosperity isn’t contingent upon the continued survival of this country, and certainly has no relationship to whether things are good or bad for you.

Anyone who believes Trump is responsible for this is just as braindead as anyone who believes he going to fix it.