The 1999 Camry my grandson drives cost me about $23K.

It must have been totally loaded. My basic 2006 Mini Cooper cost me about $20K.

Gasoline is cheaper now that it was then.

Sorry, but you are wrong. Andy and I were working on a contract in Buffalo and I remember the price of petrol at the time very clearly. It was about 90 cents a gallon. Right now petrol is $2.19 for regular.