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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by phlinak
I think an $85,000 price tag belies any genuine sense of unpretentiousness.
The $85,000 pickup is not common. My F150 XLT 4WD is pretty well loaded and the sticker was $46,800, I paid $36,000. I was just at my Ford dealer yesterday for an oil change and looked at the 450 horsepower 4WD Raptor. Their price on it was just under $70,000, and included all options down to heated steering wheel. I noticed a lot of trucks, so asked how many in stock - 172. The Fusion sedan - only 4 in stock.
The $85,000 pickup is not common. My F150 XLT 4WD is pretty well loaded and the sticker was $46,800, I paid $36,000. I was just at my Ford dealer yesterday for an oil change and looked at the 450 horsepower 4WD Raptor. Their price on it was just under $70,000, and included all options down to heated steering wheel. I noticed a lot of trucks, so asked how many in stock - 172. The Fusion sedan - only 4 in stock.
A $50K full size pickup is now the average transaction price. People aren't buying poverty spec XLT trim level.
yep. Even lighter duty pickups are pushing $35+ new on average. Can't justify that for the very limited times i'd ever need the features the truck provides over a sedan or hatchback.
We lived off grid on solar power while we drove a truck exclusively. I like to think it gave us some environmental balance. No way could a Prius or subcompact have handled northern Idaho roads where we lived.
It’s actually much cheaper to pay for delivery or rent a small trailer than to buy a “truck” in case you run across a 60” TV on sale.
Y'all never heard of used vehicles? I paid very little for my '02 2500HD Suburban and I use it regularly. There are so many opportunities as a homeowner to use a truck that find yourself using them quite a bit when you have them. Rent a truck? It's got to be available when I need it, for as long as I need it and the logistics of going to the rental agency and getting home from there again means it's more of a PITA to rent every time you need one than it is to just have a cheap truck and do what you need when you need it on your own schedule, instead of on someone else's (sitting around waiting all day for a delivery is no my idea of efficient use of time, not when I can just go get it when I want to).
As I said on page 1, I love my sedan. it's my daily driver. I love my convertible for weekend fun, and I love my Suburban for the work it can do.
Y'all never heard of used vehicles? I paid very little for my '02 2500HD Suburban and I use it regularly. There are so many opportunities as a homeowner to use a truck that find yourself using them quite a bit when you have them. Rent a truck? It's got to be available when I need it, for as long as I need it and the logistics of going to the rental agency and getting home from there again means it's more of a PITA to rent every time you need one than it is to just have a cheap truck and do what you need when you need it on your own schedule, instead of on someone else's (sitting around waiting all day for a delivery is no my idea of efficient use of time, not when I can just go get it when I want to).
As I said on page 1, I love my sedan. it's my daily driver. I love my convertible for weekend fun, and I love my Suburban for the work it can do.
Owned a home for 7 years and did top to bottom renovations. Needed a truck maybe FOUR times in all 7 of those years. And a few of those times were actually picking up large furniture, not a home depot type run. A truck was always available to rent, for as long as we needed it.
Buying a truck, even a used one, would have been an enormous money sink for little to no use.
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