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a poor person will purchase a rundown $2k escalade before they purchase a $20k+ new civic.

A poor person won't be purchasing a newer vehicle but that has no bearing on the make and model they end up driving.

There's an implicit claim here that it's easier to buy a cheap big used vehicle than a cheap small used one. That doesn't seem true, as even now at the height of SUV popularity, most new cars are not SUVs. A significant majority of used cars should therefore be small cars, no?

you're not thinking this through, vehicles cost differing amounts of money based on many things, including how well they're doing mechanically.

An SUV with the floor rusted out and leaking oil and no A/C is going to be cheaper to purchase than a used corolla with under 50k miles on it and everything generally working decently.

20-30 y/o SUV's exist, 0 year old corolla's exist. It turns out the size of the vehicle isn't nearly the largest determinant of price for vehicles.

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