Do we have a pickup glut already?
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I don't know about other areas of the country, but around New England there still seems to be limited amounts of new pickup trucks.
There may be more 1/2 ton (150-1500) trucks available now but 3/4 ton and up trucks are still pretty rare - unless you are buying the platinum titanium gold coated versions.
When I bought my F150 XLT a little over a year ago, there were no F250 trucks available. The available F350s were mostly the gold plated versions that were bumping $100,000.
A lot of the F150s were $60-80,000.... but.... if you just looked past those, there were a bunch of XL and XLT trucks that are loaded with options and cost close to 1/2 as much. And the ratings (towing, power) of the newest 1/2 tons are really impressive.
The more reasonable cost trucks are there, you just have to look past the $100,000 trucks.
(not saying they are cheap, but more reasonable cost... lol!)
Oh, and the dealers are still giving crazy amounts for trade ins. I have two friends who recently traded in, and they were amazed at how much they got for their trucks with well over 75,000 miles on them. It is almost like you get more for a trade in then trying to sell the truck yourself.
There may be more 1/2 ton (150-1500) trucks available now but 3/4 ton and up trucks are still pretty rare - unless you are buying the platinum titanium gold coated versions.
When I bought my F150 XLT a little over a year ago, there were no F250 trucks available. The available F350s were mostly the gold plated versions that were bumping $100,000.
A lot of the F150s were $60-80,000.... but.... if you just looked past those, there were a bunch of XL and XLT trucks that are loaded with options and cost close to 1/2 as much. And the ratings (towing, power) of the newest 1/2 tons are really impressive.
The more reasonable cost trucks are there, you just have to look past the $100,000 trucks.
(not saying they are cheap, but more reasonable cost... lol!)
Oh, and the dealers are still giving crazy amounts for trade ins. I have two friends who recently traded in, and they were amazed at how much they got for their trucks with well over 75,000 miles on them. It is almost like you get more for a trade in then trying to sell the truck yourself.
