Interesting to me that you used the car analogy. About 2 weeks ago I started an "age poll" on one of the high performance vehicles sites I frequent. Out of the almost 400 votes so far, I was surprised that there were several there that "claimed" they were under 25 and owned one of the vehicles. (These things are not cheap - maybe daddy's money?) Even more surprising was there was almost an equal number that said they were 86+. (Glad to see it but, Wow) As "I" expected, most were in the 36 to 45 age group followed by the 46 to 55 folks. Those two age groups made up ~60% of the owners.
Another car-related one I like to call people out on is when they talk about how cheap cars were back in the day, and hear about how you could get a brand new car in '57 for under $2000 or whatever. While you COULD do that, as the cheapest Ford/Chevy/Plymouth models were around $2K or a bit less. Or a Studebaker, that literally had "Scotsman" in its name, so that should be a clue right there. But, the way people tended to equip the cars, they were a LOT more than that.
And I literally have receipts on this one, as I have a bunch of old paperwork on most of the cars my paternal grandparents ever bought. One of them was a brand new 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 Victoria 4-door hardtop. Look it up in an old car encyclopedia, and its base MSRP was around $2400. However, as equipped, my grandparents' was around $3500. A lot of these young-uns forget that stuff like an automatic, power steering/brakes, radio, heater, sometimes even backup lights were all optional back then. And then, stuff like 2-tone paint, and whitewall tires, which you see on most 50's cars at classic car shows, were extra-cost as well. Granddad also sprung for the larger 312 V8, which also added a few bucks to that price.
These young-uns might still try to say that $3500 was still cheap for a car. But adjusting for inflation, that's about $38.5K today! And that's still for a car with no a/c (that would've pushed it to around $4K, as a/c was plaything for the rich back then), crank windows, manual door locks. No tilt wheel. No cruise control. A solid bench seat with only a fore/aft adjustment. An AM radio with one speaker. No airbags, no abs, and the only thing resembling "safety" would be how far back the steering box was mounted (the further back, the less likely to get speared by the steering wheel in a front-end collision), and whether the car was equipped with optional lap belts and a thin vinyl padding over the metal dashboard.
