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IIRC, the average price of a car last year in the US was around $41k. There are many options whose MSRP is under that price, e.g. https://www.myev.com/research/buyers-sellers-advice/comparin...

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Once again, the "average" fallacy. In normal circumstances, the average is rarely the statistic you want to quote (and definitely not unless it is accompanied by standard deviation values). Median is the correct way to identify "the typical" [0].

You're in luck though. The median appears to be about $38k, so the difference in this case is not that great.

[0] there's the old joke about (Gates|Bezos|Musk|...) walks into a bar, and the bartender says "hey! thanks, on average we're all millionaires in here now!"

That’s the average new car, the median purchase price of all cars will be much lower

The median price I cited was for new cars.

To illustrate the point even more, if it's an average sized bar they'd still be billionaires on average.

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