Is that the Dacia Sandero? The VW Up! (not Golf, my mistake) is ~15k EUR. My knowledge cutoff transitively only goes up to 2021, so I can't be sure which one you mean, but I am curious.

Where is the VW Golf 15k EUR?

I bought an 8 year old Golf with over 100k km over 2 years ago and paid around 12k EUR for it, new it was around 32k.

For context this is in the Netherlands, I do believe cars are a bit more expensive here but I can't believe a new Golf would cost 15k anywhere.

To be clear I'm not calling you a liar or anything, I'm genuinely curious if there are such major discrepancies between countries.

Ah, thanks for catching that. On the website (https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/configurator.html) I read "up!" as "Golf" for some reason. Indeed the Golf is about the price you quoted.

Doesn't the Dacia Spring prove that they can do a "non-luxury" EV? It's not that much more expensive than the Sandero.

Dacia Sandero indeed. Golf starts at around 30k.

Cars in general are a luxury.

Maybe one day that'll be true in the majority of the US.

Good thing the US ain't the majority.