bmanning wrote:
ib516 wrote:
A buddy of mine is shopping for a new 1500 series truck. He's a GM guy (owns a Duramax powered 2500HD now), and wants a GM/Chevy 1500 truck. When shopping comparable trucks, he says he's finding GM wants about $5000 more than Ford or Ram - truck for truck. He's leaning to getting an F150 now simply because of the price difference. I think that's a significant factor for their poor sales in Canada anyway.
Not to over-simplify but that ($5,000 difference) has to be a major contributing reason to poor GM sales.
Example- I've got my mind on a 2014 Ram 2500 6.4L with air suspension, but if I could get an identically-equipped Ford or GM for $5000 less I'd have to think long & hard.
It's one thing to spend hundreds or a grand or 2 to get exactly what you want, but $5,000 is a lot of money to most (OK, at least many) of us!
Guess this must be a regional thing...in around the western NC area, Ford is the highest priced with Chevy and Ram either lower or the lowest..Used to be Ram was the lowest priced of the 3, I know it was true with the 2010 and 2012 models I owned....Even the 13 I have compared to the other 2, Ford was still higher, and Chevy would have competed with the Ram pricing...
