New cars have become considerably more expensive in recent years. It wasn’t that long ago that the average price crossing $40,000 seemed bonkers, and spending $50,000 on a ride made you fancy; now, the average purchase price for a new car in America has been hovering above $48,000. Toyota’s head of North American sales Jack Hollis believes that price may top $50,000 soon. The most egregious example may be full-size pickup trucks. An outlay in the mid-$50,000 range once

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Budget sedans are anything but sexy, and rolling with less than 200 horsepower, a CVT and cloth seats seems about as far from an enthusiast car as one can get. But in a car market gone bonkers, the Honda Civic still offers exceptional value. If you wan’t something sportier, there’s a Civic for that. If you want a really dialed-in sports car, there’s also a
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