Price of new trucks way above the economic recovery rate

donn0128 wrote:
Add in the outrageous government regulations imposed on the auto makers that have taken effect in the last 10 years or so and it is quite understandable how the prices have jumped so dramatically. And this is only the start.

Not completely true. Many of the identical new vehicles are sold in Mexico and further south without many of those US mandated items like air bags, ant-locks, traction control etc at a higher retail than in the US. Strange but true.