Weight police will LOVE this one ...
Was looking at 2500HD GMC see a recent 'factory price increase' of a few grand -- which bumps the truck price a bunch. So, decided to compare Ford - never owned a Ford, always been GMC guy. SO, I e...
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That's why it's tough to order a truck nowadays -- so many options impact other things ... Like you said, tick the wrong box and you get a payload that only carries groceries ...
I'm going through the GM site, and comparing with the Ford site, see how different it is ... but it's almost you can't compare because of exactly that - you ask for a seat change - and the seat is $625, but it "requires" an interior package that costs $2865 ... So, it's like the $650 hammer the feds buy - the hammer cost $20 bucks, but the package cost $630 ...
We all know it's because of build efficiency at the factory - add any one tiny change to each truck would cost a fortune ... BUT sometimes it makes NO sense to put some things together in a package that are unrelated to it.
To buy a seat, you need to upgrade the stereo and some other trim ??? What does a stereo have to do with where you sit ... some of the adds make no sense.
And, as mentioned, some reduce payload ... that's not always a good thing.
I'm going through the GM site, and comparing with the Ford site, see how different it is ... but it's almost you can't compare because of exactly that - you ask for a seat change - and the seat is $625, but it "requires" an interior package that costs $2865 ... So, it's like the $650 hammer the feds buy - the hammer cost $20 bucks, but the package cost $630 ...
We all know it's because of build efficiency at the factory - add any one tiny change to each truck would cost a fortune ... BUT sometimes it makes NO sense to put some things together in a package that are unrelated to it.
To buy a seat, you need to upgrade the stereo and some other trim ??? What does a stereo have to do with where you sit ... some of the adds make no sense.
And, as mentioned, some reduce payload ... that's not always a good thing.
