{"id":4787,"date":"2025-08-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7306347"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:00:00","slug":"in-numbers-buying-a-car-in-bc-is-getting-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/4787\/in-numbers-buying-a-car-in-bc-is-getting-more-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: Buying a car in BC is getting more expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The price of anything in BC feels like highway robbery lately, but buying a car might hurt the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want a reasonably priced used car these days you\u2019re probably risk watching the wheels fly off on the highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the numbers that are probably going to grind your gears:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>33,868:<\/strong>&nbsp;Is the average price for a used car in Canada, according to Clutch.ca.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>37,438:<\/strong>&nbsp;Is the average price for a used car in BC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>20,000:<\/strong>&nbsp;Bucks is roughly the price of an eight-year-old Honda in Kelowna, Kamloops and Vancouver, with more than 100,000 kilometres on the odometer, on AutoTrader.ca.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>6.2:<\/strong>&nbsp;Percent is the increase in car prices in BC in the past year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>0:<\/strong>&nbsp;Provincial sales tax for a car in Alberta.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>12:<\/strong>&nbsp;Percent is the provincial sales tax on a car in BC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>21,000:<\/strong>&nbsp;New cars were sold in BC and the territories in May 2025, according to Statistics Canada.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>20,000:&nbsp;<\/strong>New cars were sold in BC and the territories in May 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>792:<\/strong>&nbsp;Million is the approximate value of 20,000 cars in 2015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1.2:<\/strong>&nbsp;Billion is roughly the value of 21,000 cars in 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1,800:&nbsp;<\/strong>Bucks get you a pretty snazzy used moped on Facebook Marketplace in the Okanagan, just sayin\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got some numbers that may grind your gears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":4788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":null,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1285,492,493],"tags":[],"region":[206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/inwheels-hd-mediaitemid75928-8956.jpg","post_modified":"2025-08-08T05:00:00","post_modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:00:00","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}