[HN Gopher] Craigslist Cars EDA
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       Craigslist Cars EDA
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-03-26 08:28 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.kaggle.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.kaggle.com)
        
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       | benmller313 wrote:
       | Any idea what's up with the two peaks in the price of 10 cylinder
       | cars?
        
         | throwaway0a5e wrote:
         | The V10 prices are going to be dominated by the Ford v10. Yes
         | there's the Dodge v10 in some 20yo trucks and Vipers but for
         | every one of those produced a stream of V10 E-series cab and
         | chassis rolled off the production line.
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         | One peak is likely trucks and the other is likely vans. Trucks
         | tend to go for more than vans because they tend to have 4wd,
         | more appeal to people who care bout image and a wider variety
         | of job specific bodies on them. Or at least that's my theory.
        
         | loeg wrote:
         | Very few cars have 10 cylinders and (speculating) the end
         | result just happens to be bimodal. Or bad data -- some scraped
         | value is misinterpreted as indicating 10 cylinders. Three and
         | five cylinder engines are not common either.
        
       | Edman274 wrote:
       | This is very good visualization but I'm very surprised by how the
       | author didn't understand that the 2020 cars had their prices set
       | by the monthly payment or by the down payment rather than the
       | total price of the vehicle, since all of the postings would be by
       | dealerships.
        
       | aj7 wrote:
       | " Not sure what to make about the vehicles showing in the low
       | price area of 2020,"
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       | Advertised down payment needed for loan interpreted as price.
        
         | canthonytucci wrote:
         | or monthly financing/lease payment.
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         | Many will put $0, $1 or no price to try to get in to the most
         | search results.
        
       | bellyfullofbac wrote:
       | DC has the highest % of foreign cars being sold. Idle
       | speculation: I wonder if some foreign embassies mandate buying
       | their national car brands, and if they sell their cars quite
       | often to keep their fleet shiny new...
        
       | redstripe wrote:
       | Price Distribution by Year -- this is an interesting one. Looks
       | like eventually there isn't a huge variance in price. So brands
       | with "good resale value" probably don't matter if you're keeping
       | your car a really long time.
        
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