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Originally Posted by red-beard

Well, even the T in the first year or so was not cheap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T



On the A, the price started around $385, which was around the same as the later model T

In addition one could argue you get quite a bit more with an "economy" car these days compared to a Model A. So much so that I'd say the cost for an economy car has gone down over the last say 100 years.