Because $60,000-$80,000 vehicles are SOOOOOO affordable to Americans who have been devastated by the war on the Middle Class. /rolls eyes
Which is why I was buying 99 cent cans of pasta sauce last night - still a good deal (the sale is gone now - a loss leader which I shop every week or few weeks if I can. They had peanut butter for 99 cents though now I generally buy the 64oz at WalMart - still not a bad buy)
I used to think that $20,000 was too much to pay for a truck. Now prices are ridiculous. Oh, for the good old days when cars were $5,000 new.