Ford, GM and Chrysler cash in on posh pickups

Driven by the fashion statement crowd...

Am expecting the Lambo like swing up door kits to make it big this year. A kid
down the street has that setup on his Escalade and draws a crowd whenever he gets in/out...

20's are now OEM

Like on one thread someone was stating that a passenger side view mirror was
over a thousand bucks. Gads...it is a mirror !?!

All the more potential failure points, IMHO

Yes in your time dated humble opinion... 18/20" rims required now a days due to the larger brakes found on "modern" vehicles... unlike your 96 burb with its itsy bitsy 16" wheels or your 80 chevy 1/2 ton with its even smaller 15" rims...with larger tow/hual caps with the "modern" vehicles, larger brakes are required to stop em.... your itsy bitsy teeny weeny brakes from yester-year wouldn't... couldn't stop today's "modern" vehicles! Hardly a "fashion statement"!

As for cost of replacement parts... all relative...betcha in 1980 that driver side mirror was a heck of an expense at that time as it is now. Love how some continue to try and get us to swallow the old ... "had to walk 10 miles up hill both ways to school every day... and in a blinding snowstorm at -55 degrees..." :B

carringb wrote:
Most folks buying trucks with heated butt massagers and 3 screen infotainment systems with 28 speakers sound systems are not buying them because they have more money to spend. They're just taking out extended-term loans because the salesperson "made their payment the same" which means more negative equity loans out there, undoubtedly being repackaged into investment securities which your (and my) retirement portfolio is buying into.

Spot on Bryan!!

I'm still buying XL and Tradesman trimmed trucks. I've been called a statical outlier before...

Driven by the fashion statement crowd...

Am expecting the Lambo like swing up door kits to make it big this year. A kid
down the street has that setup on his Escalade and draws a crowd whenever he gets in/out...

20's are now OEM

Like on one thread someone was stating that a passenger side view mirror was
over a thousand bucks. Gads...it is a mirror !?!

All the more potential failure points, IMHO

I bet at one time Rolls Royce has made something like a truck for some billionaire.

downtheroad wrote:
Big money in pick-ups...
Maybe Aston Martin will start selling "luxe trucks" also..

I'm waiting on the Rolls Royce version.

N-Trouble wrote:
Been going on for years... Why is this "news"???

Yes, luxo trucks have been around. But it it a recent development that the luxo-trucks are now making up such a substantial proportion of overall profits.

It's great for them for now, but I worry that when the automotive ballon-loan bubble bursts, it's going to hurt the market segment pretty bad, and then the automakers will be begging for more bailouts.

Most folks buying trucks with heated butt massagers and 3 screen infotainment systems with 28 speakers sound systems are not buying them because they have more money to spend. They're just taking out extended-term loans because the salesperson "made their payment the same" which means more negative equity loans out there, undoubtedly being repackaged into investment securities which your (and my) retirement portfolio is buying into.

Been going on for years... Why is this "news"??? Slow day in the auto industry?

Big money in pick-ups...
Maybe Aston Martin will start selling "luxe trucks" also..