Also the ever looming fear of car prices increasing even more is properly set in our country's consumers. People have a real fear of missing out and buy whatever they can in their price range asap to avoid even further price increases. Plus due to negligible depreciation of cars here, most people look at them as investments, and so don't care that much about initial prices and value for money as they're not depreciating assets, they're an investment. In my family I've seen not a single person getting mad over price increases and happily paying the extra cause the prices will rise even more after and better to get whatever you can right now as it'll get unaffordable soon after. It's an amazing phenomenon our country's automobile mafia has discovered and is exploiting for just regular econoboxes.
Prices of civic/corolla can go up to 10m in a few years and I still won't be surprised if they keep on selling huge amounts.
Another horrible thing locals are totally accepting is paying own premiums. The insane wait time after booking and huge price increases has made own seem so reasonable in comparison, many genuine buyers couldn't care less about actually booking a car anymore. The government rather than doing anything about the greedy investors is just focusing on their share of the cut by implementing high registration taxes.
