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While I'm all but an expert on this topic, I'll add my $0.02 to this thread:

I'd suggest to keep one important aspect in mind: Asking price does not equal selling price.
I've been in the market for a 73.5T Targa for over a year now, and I've come across quite a few cars for sale that had an astronomic price tag. More often than not those cars disappear from the market and resurface a few weeks/moths later again. Sometimes with a slightly lower asking price, sometimes with a higher asking price from the same seller - almost comical.

So while I agree that prices have skyrocketed lately (for all the good reasons mentioned by the other posters above), I'd suggest to take sticker prices with a grain of salt...