# Historical new car prices by year

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 29, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-new-car-prices-by-year/417357 "2007-08-29T13:19:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cagey\_Drifter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@Cagey\_Drifter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cagey_Drifter)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-new-car-prices-by-year/417357/1 "2007-08-29T13:19:50Z")

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Is there source on such information? For example, how much did a new Honda civic with standard features cost in 1993? 1994? 1995? 1996?

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**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-new-car-prices-by-year/417357/2 "2007-08-29T14:11:42Z")

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Find a Car and Driver with what ever car you are looking for is tested. they give you more info than you would need.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-new-car-prices-by-year/417357/3 "2007-08-29T20:41:19Z")

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“Standard Catalog of American Cars” should be present in your local bookstore last I checked. Your local library may have it.  
There’s another publication by the same folks for imports.

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**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/historical-new-car-prices-by-year/417357/4 "2007-08-29T20:54:50Z")

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There are quite a few on this site: [Classic Car models and prices for cars from the Forties](http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/40scars.html)  
That page is for the forties, but if you look on the left side there are links to other decades.