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Originally Posted by aerohead
... willing to pay between Audi and Bentley prices for a CIVIC-R.
Obviously, logic and reason no longer belong to a portion of the calculus of car purchasing. Only emotion. P. T. Barnam and Shylock would marvel at it.
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No longer?
A Buick GNX cost almost $30k in 1987, $68.5k in 2020 dollars. The base Regal was around $25k 2020 USD.
You can get a type-R Civic for $43k, the base coupe is $21k
https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-...ckType=listing
Doesn't seem like much has changed in those 33 intervening years. Special high performance packages have always come at a hefty premium when they actually meant something (those two cars I find the most comparable because they share so few parts with the base model counterparts).