I'm with you in thinking that new aircraft are ridiculously over-priced, but the SR-20, or any Cirrus aircraft, isn't comparable to a PA28. Piper's modern base model PA28 (2015 Archer TX) starts at $345k MSRP. A major chunk of that is in the G1000 glass, Aspen EFD-1000, WAAS GPS, etc. A looong...