Wild Card wrote:
4x4ord wrote:
I'm one that wants leather seats. Most leather seats are vinyl. The highest trim levels in the Ford actually nice leather. Once I'm set on a KR or Platinum I want the rest of it too. I don't think there is much difference in price between a plain Jane XLT 4x4 crewcab diesel and a loaded Platinum.
The difference between XLT and
Platinum can be $10-15k
I like leather but don't need 10 cameras, a.c. seats, power mirrors, auto lights, auto brake etc. So I buy mid level and have an upholstery shop put good leather heated seats.
If it costs an extra 15 for the Platinum you might get 1/3 of that back 10 years down the road. So, the extras likely cost about $1000 per year. Maybe an xlt depreciates 3k/year and a Platinum 4k/year. As long as it doesn't come out of the 20k per year that a couple is saving for retirement they'll never miss it.
