Francesca Knowles wrote:
monkey44 wrote:
Who said anything about payments - I'm talking about price - period.
And if I sell/trade my truck, what does that have to do with the price, the price is the price ... and it's increased at a faster rate than everything else, including all those "value-less" dollars the feds print. If they're so value-less, just give some extra to me in the form of a check, or even cash will do.
This is the U.S.of A.- and you're right...the price is the price.
Thing is, in this our much-worshiped "whatever the market will bear" economy, "the price" is based on the market.
Which market seems to me to be perfectly willing to pay big upcharges for faux-leather seats, built-in GPS systems, raised-letter tires, and whatever other frippery that we're quite willing to believe to be essential to what used to be simple modes of transportation.
On t'other hand...they gussied up pickup-type trucks they be puttin' out these days sho' is purty! :)
Yes, very nice truck, not actually trucks anymore - fancy,heated seats, electronic everything, push-button controls, air ride -- Oh Yeah, still got four tires and a steering wheel (oppps, sometime six tires) ... only way we recognize it's a truck is the bed.
But my point is - all the hype we see about "deals" are not really deals. And for the record, yes we can afford it and no this is not a complaint, more a statement of facts ... comparing "the best deal then with the best deal now" shows us the pricing factors rise much faster than our economy (well, based on COLA) which tells us how much the dollar value changes. But again, COLA is another manipulation of figures. For example: Gas/diesel is NOT a part of that calculation, but in fact is probably the most single important variable in economic evaluation. Yet, it's not counted ... we wonder why?
Part of it, maybe, if we include fuel products the real COLA would rise faster, and most federal and state, and military pay, is based on COLA .. so if the true cost of living were put in play, the feds would need to give out raises (which it claims keeps up with costs of living) and we'd be able to afford these new trucks with the same impact on our paychecks as it did ten years ago.
So, my point is not to complain about the price exactly, but to illustrate it happens ... and wonder why we allow it to happen. If we keep buying trucks for more than the value, prices will continue to rise ... and we'll proportion a larger piece of our individual pie to auto makers.
SO, as I'm now in the market for a new truck - no matter how well you care for it, a truck does wear out - and when we looked at the prices and the "ads voice", we see a different picture than in the past.
