Grit dog wrote:
How much should a new truck cost in your world? And what kind of truck should it be for however much you think it's worth?
I'm not disagreeing with the fact that they are expensive, but relatively speaking they were just as expensive in the past.
And you get more than you used to. Just use 10 years as an example.
Sticker on my 07 was around $50k. A comparable Mega today stickers for about $64k
To get mine to perform like a new one, asthetics and noise aside I have or wood have to add:
Exhaust brake $2k installed
Tune/programmer:$500
Bluetooth touch stereo backup cam and all that goes with it. :$1000 min
Other interior niceties not on the 07 :$1-2k
Better brakes: $1000min
All the fix it parts to get rest of the drivetrain comparable : Another couple thousand.
Point being, factor in all that and inflation and the cost in today's dollar is getting real close. The good economy pushes the rest of the demanded price.
Yeah, and you also have all of the government mandated stuff that has been required since then. Like electronic stability control that was mandated on all 2012 and up vehicles or all the added air bags for new safety requirements. Then then there is the increased use of costly high strength steel on the a-pillars due to rollover regulations requiring a vehicle to hold its own weight. The stability control alone requires all sorts of sensors and valves to operate on top of some sort of yaw control module.
....and this is not even including the cost of the government mandated emission controls on diesels since then.
