I see your point, but also think the people in the B body market in the U.S. tend to be the more wealthy individuals just because nice B bodies are so much more valuable at the present time than C bodies. For people now in the C body market, which may just be taking off given their increasing desirability around the world, they tend to be more of our middle class that has been left out of the current B body reality. As such, with no savings, it is hard for them to buy a nice $10K C body when the seller really isn't interested in letting a buyer make payments over time based on a $100 deposit. Full time jobs, stable jobs, decent salaries, or those ancient relics of the past called pensions aren't readily available here in the U.S. anymore, and even college degrees may not help much (if the middle class could even afford to send their kids to college anymore). It seems people in Germany at least and some other European countries seem to keep their eye on the ball more than folks here in the U.S. when it comes to politics and seem more analytical in making political choices than Americans who take all they have much more for granted and are more influenced by talk radio, internet and TV sound bites rather than analyzing what is really happening and voting accordingly. One thing for sure, these trends are complex and there are a bunch of factors influencing them.
Oh, and I called the seller just out of curiosity and asked him why the car was still not sold after 4 individuals actually came and looked at the car, and his response was simple: not a one of them had the money ($3000) was his reply (although they may have seen additional problems/expenses that didn't make the car worth it to them I was also thinking to myself).
