That’s the nature of high inflation, everything goes up and even when inflation is back under control prices don’t and won’t fall. They’ll just rise at a much slower rate.
We’re in the process of switching from our Mercedes to a Skoda, the retail price of the less well equipped (and some might say inferior) Skoda is £4k more than the Merc was just over 3 years ago.
If I seem a little strange, that's because I am.
Skoda Karoq SEL.