iN NUMBERS: Buying a car in BC is getting more expensive
The price of anything in BC feels like highway robbery lately, but buying a car might hurt the most.
If you want a reasonably priced used car these days, you’re probably risking watching the wheels fly off on the highway.
Here are the numbers that are probably going to grind your gears:
33,868: Is the average price for a used car in Canada, according to Clutch.ca.
37,438: Is the average price for a used car in BC.
20,000: Bucks is roughly the price of an eight-year-old Honda in Kelowna, Kamloops and Vancouver, with more than 100,000 kilometres on the odometer, on AutoTrader.ca.
6.2: Percent is the increase in car prices in BC in the past year.
0: Provincial sales tax for a car in Alberta.
12: Percent is the provincial sales tax on a car in BC.
21,000: New cars were sold in BC and the territories in May 2025, according to Statistics Canada.
20,000: New cars were sold in BC and the territories in May 2015.
792: Million is the approximate value of 20,000 cars in 2015.
1.2: Billion is roughly the value of 21,000 cars in 2025.
1,800: Bucks get you a pretty snazzy used moped on Facebook Marketplace in the Okanagan, just sayin’.
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