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In this episode, Reed has found in his garage attic a copy of the Consumer Guide 1985 Cars book. Your hosts then posit what kind of company car a mid-level, well-paid executive (perhaps) could buy for 20,000 1985 dollars (which today is a hair over $60k).

Spoiler Alert: The individual option availability when ordering is astonishing compared to the package-based (read: “I don’t want half this crap”) feature sets OEMs foist on us today.

For you visual types, here’s the moving-picture version. Same words, but with more… us.