Sure, totally. I was perhaps assuming a certain level of affluence from a HN commenter discussing buying a car for their daughter, but it's true that I described a heavily used premium economy car rather than the complete "at-least-it-starts" clunker that represents the actual bottom of the market.
I had to get my own job and save to buy my own first car. It was 2k
If it had been 10k it would have taken forever to afford on part time minimum wage
My parents definitely did not have a spare 10k laying around to buy me a car. And if a family has more than one child, then what?