I'm not going to blow $10k or $15k on some poverty spec POS and the car makers know it. Every stripped out cheap car on the market has to compete with millions of slightly used yet much better spec used cars.
If you had $10000 to spend on a car which would you pick?
2001 525i 91k miles, asking $9900
Actually never mind. Most of you guys are nuts and don't represent the majority of Americans.
The stripper is dead. Good riddance.