Greetings America. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here. Coast to Coast. The full number 877977425. If you want to be on the program, as always, you can text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 33-777-7 to be on the program.

Let's talk about cars for a moment. No, this is not a car talk program, but it's relevant to the news of the day.

The 10 cheapest new cars you can buy right now, I got this Cars.com, of those half are Kia or Hyundai vehicles.

The cheapest is the Mitsubishi Mirage ES, $17,650. The Kia Rio is 17875, the Nissan

Versa, 18595, the Kia Forte, LX, 20,000, 815, the Hyundai Vin-U andU and S little SUV, 20,000, 985.

The Nissan Centra S, 21, 145, the Kia Soul LX, 212115, the Chevrolet Trax L.S.

21495, the Hyundai Alantra SE, 22065.

And then last but not least, the Hyundai Alantra SE, 22065.

And then last but not least, the Subaru Impreza, $22,115.

So the cheapest is $70,650.

But of those, you've got the Kia Rio, the Kia Forte, the Hyundai Venue, the Kia Soul, and the Hyundai Alantra,

five of the top 10 or Kia or Hyundai. Now, I don't know if you know this or not. I assume you do,

but the reason vehicles are more and more expensive is not just the cost of materials for the cars keep going up, but the government

demands for automakers to put things in cars go up. From airbags to pedestrian detectors,

to black box sensors, to rearview cameras for backing up to automatic braking

detection systems.

The government keeps adding more and more safety features to cars.

Those safety features all costs and those costs are passed on to consumers,

making it harder and harder to find a very cheap vehicle in this country to put your family in.

Kia and Hyundai make some of the cheapest cars in America.

Therefore, people of the lower and middle, middle class, they buy those vehicles.

They are reliable.

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