January 13, 2021 - Combine them and you get an average new car price of $40,107. On average, new car buyers left dealerships (or signed papers from home) having agreed to a car payment of $581 per month at a 4.6% APR over 70 months.

1950, AAA has published its annual Your Driving Costs study that breaks down the cost of owning a new · car including depreciation, finance, fuel, insurance, license/registration/taxes and maintenance/repair. ... This year the overall average cost to own and operate a new car in 2020 is $9,561 — ...

January 6, 2026 - Alright, let’s get down to brass tacks. The average cost of a new car in 2020 was around \(38,000 to \)40,000. Now, before you start thinking that’s a crazy amount, remember a few things.

February 18, 2020 - 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The valuation analysts at Kelley Blue Book today reported the estimated average transaction price for a light vehicle in the United States was $37,851 in January 2020.

October 15, 2025 - And it turns out, new luxury car ... costing over $120,000! I'm just going to continue driving my 10-year old vehicle until it breaks. Take a look below at the most popular car brands and models on the market and their prices from 2019-2020. The chart just gives you a sampling of various car prices. Now add another 10% – 20% to these car prices for 2024. It really seems absurd that the average new car price is $49,366 according ...

October 13, 2021 - In September, the average new car cost $45,031 -- the first time this figure crossed over the $45,000 in history, according to the latest data from Kelley Blue Book and Cox Automotive on Tuesday.

September 13, 2023 - The average cost of new cars is now well over $48,000—up almost $6,000 from two years ago and about $10,000 from September 2020, according to Kelley Blue Book.

January 12, 2022 - The new average was noted by Kelley Blue Book, which also calculated an amazingly rapid rate of increase for car prices for the past three years. The average price rose just under $1800 in 2019, then just over $3301 in 2020, and then an incredible ...

October 30, 2025 - Pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions led to a ... most expensive, highest-margin vehicles. The average new car now costs more than $50,000 — a record — according to Kelley Blue Book.

The valuation analysts at Kelley Blue Book today reported the estimated average transaction price for a light vehicle in the United States was $37,876 in February 2020. New-vehicle prices...

October 12, 2025 - The average price of a new vehicle has risen over the years. This article explains why the prices have risen and if a new or used car is best for you.

April 11, 2026 - Consumer prices rose 3.3% in March, the biggest yearly increase since May 2024, while new car prices were up 12.6% from a year ago, the Labor Department reported Friday. New vehicles now sell for an average of nearly $50,000, up 30% in six years, ...

October 13, 2025 - But if these vehicles fail because people are buying used instead of them and most of the people buying new are still going for 40-80K then we will just see this cycle continue. ... Besides, this is just the average.

January 30, 2026 - This is literally a chart of baseline inflation: > Based on the consumer price index (CPI) data, $35,158 in 2016 is equivalent in purchasing power to approximately $47,476.32 today (as of early 2026), reflecting a cumulative increase of about 35.05% in cost of living over that period. Median household wages increased from $57,617 in 2016 to an estimated $74,580 by late 2025/2026, about 30%. Welcome to Inflation 101 class. ... Here is the source of the chart. An alarming factoid: "The share of new-car buyers with incomes of less than $100,000 has dropped from 50% in 2020 to 37% last year, while the share of buyers with incomes of more than $200,000 has grown from 18% to 29% during that time frame, according to Cox Automotive."

April 19, 2024 - At the beginning of the past decade, average new car prices increased less than 3% annually until the COVID-19 pandemic began.[2] Between 2019 and 2020, prices rose 5%. Then, average new car prices spiked — by 17.2% — between 2020 and 2021.

Kias saw some of the strongest inflation to their new models during the pandemic – up 54% on average between 2020 and 2024. Pre-COVID, however, Kias saw some of the largest depreciation among all foreign brands. In March 2020, they were worth just 58% of their original listing price, the lowest of any foreign brand car. New Kia models that have seen strong inflation include: the Kia Sorento, which increased by 45% ($13,275) between March 2020 and 2024 ... Used Porsches and Lexuses have the highest replacement cost ratio of all foreign brands, worth 63% (or 63 cents on the dollar) of the cost of a comparable new car.