Back around 2021, it was a wild time to be covering cars. And a wilder time to actually try to buy one. The pandemic had snarled supply chains, shut down car factories, and squeezed the supply of chips. It all meant that used cars were suddenly worth their weight in gold. (Almost.)
I remember stories of lightly used cars going for more than the MSRP of a new model. That was just because the new models were nowhere to be found. Things eventually rightsized themselves, but now we’re dealing with some similarly odd dynamics in the EV world.