Pretty sure that’s a lambo, dude.

Went to look up the original price at 35k adjusted for inflation. In 2000 prices it’s actually pretty close to 50k. In 2009, it’s 40k.

More accurately, they’re playing all of us for fools. remember that this is a public statement, and that they might say entirely different things in private meetings.

That’s true. The culprit there are the different emission and fuel economy standards for different arbitrary “classes” of vehicles. It’s a mess that auto makers have been doing weird classification hacks to get around for decades.