Paid $43K for my 2500HD 4x4 Xcab in 2015 ... got 56K miles on it now, mostly all camping and hauling TC on cross-country camping trips. Runs like a champ, and we hope keeping maintenance up and caring for our truck, it will out-last our camping days, thinking at least another 150K miles like the last one - traded in at 214K miles. If we ever need another truck, we'll probably give it up, buy something smaller, and go back to tents or vans for the price of a new truck, even tho affording it is not the issue ... it's the outrageous price - dang near a house.
Maybe working guys - probably wife and hubby both employed - can afford it, and enjoy it, and make it last. Retired tho, with our dollar value shrinking annually, not quite as easy.
