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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jboy210" data-source="post: 5482254" data-attributes="member: 55239">All cars, regardless of brand, have gone up in the last few months.  Go to a dealer's lot and notice the lack of inventory caused by slow demand during the pandemic reducing production and now by the chip shortage.  And these car dealers know the supply of new cars is constrained, so they are not negotiating the price down to make sale numbers, and in some cases, adding markups.   So, if you can't wait 2 years or so for production to increase they are going to take advantage of the situation.It is the basic law of supply and demand, and capitalism.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/21/business/car-prices-record-high-short-supply/index.html[/URL]</blockquote>