That’s because consumer inflation is subjective. You can choose which goods and data point represent personal experience.

As you well know the government uses “hedonic adjustment” which is when they say a car in 2025 is so much better that a car in 1980 that higher prices should be reduced to reflect that better good.

A different model is that you need A car to participate in society so even if it’s better we just raised to the cost to exist.