This makes perfect sense from the liberal elitist viewpoint. Making cars unaffordable gets the proles on buses and trains and relieves traffic congestsion so limousine liberals can get where they are going faster.
They are also counting on the proven stupidity of voters to accept the argument that they must take over the economy to save the economy, after they wreck it of course.
Finally, engineers should not be designing cars, it should be politicians and columnists.
Assuming there are busses and trains to get on.
But forcing people to move into the already festering urban areas makes the sheep easier to keep track of.