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US pickup truck buyers demanding more luxury
ABC News ^
| October 12, 2017
| Dee-Ann Durbin, Automotive Writer, The Associated Press
Posted on 10/12/2017 1:04:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“demanding more luxury” ha. make a quality pickup with stick shift, no gps or black box, rollup windows or fakebook at a realistic price and it would break sales records.
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:11:48 AM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You need training before soloing on one of those things!
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:19:35 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:24:01 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: 867V309
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:40:32 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
To: Ken H
wow! cheap dull chrome plated plastic and chinese lcds! Here’s my 10 year indebtedness!
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:42:33 AM PDT
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867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: 867V309
demanding more luxury ha. make a quality pickup with stick shift, no gps or black box, rollup windows or fakebook at a realistic price and it would break sales records.They do. They're called "fleet trucks" and most dealers sell them.
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:47:27 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Blue Jays
"...luxury trucks..."
Sounds fine by me. People are free to spend money as they wish. I enjoy well-appointed vehicles, too.
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:51:58 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Drew68
They do. They're called "fleet trucks" and most dealers sell them.
I know, that's where the profit is. Just like corporate jacking of seats at sports events. No place for real people anymore.
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:53:37 AM PDT
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867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: Blue Jays
People are free to spend money as they wish.
Not when car makers only make high-priced vehicles.
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posted on
10/12/2017 1:56:42 AM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
... But that’s what American truck buyers increasingly want, spending an average of $46,844 on a pickup,
Please tell me thats not the real average people spend for a new truck. Thats insane.
To: 867V309
How many people can drive a manual now?
I have one of maybe little over half dozen manual Tacomas in the SE.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:04:54 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: wally_bert
In my area (northeast NJ, a dozen miles west of NYC) stickshifts are just impractical; you’d have arthritic wrists/elbows by the time you’re 24.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:09:09 AM PDT
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kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: Flick Lives
They are the new cars for a post-family America (or modern family, with one child and one dog); they have the passenger cab of a sedan with the added functionality of the bed.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:10:22 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: wally_bert
How many people can drive a manual now?
Right. And it's a real shame it takes an hour or two to learn.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:10:31 AM PDT
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867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: kearnyirish2
In my area (northeast NJ, a dozen miles west of NYC) stickshifts are just impractical; youd have arthritic wrists/elbows by the time youre 24.
snowflake.
sure glad we didn't need you in the Battle of the Bulge.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:12:59 AM PDT
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867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: Ken H
For under $300 I had a nice double din with 7” display with GPS, Stereo, DVD player, MP3 player, and back up camera installed in my older model F150 Supercrew. While they are nice to have; it didn’t add $50k to the value of the truck.
The moral of the story is find an older King Ranch or Lariat (or whatever is equivalent in GM or other brands) and just add a few of these newer tech items for much less than you might think.
For another $52 I added a TPMS to monitor the air pressure in all the tires. They have the vale stem screw on type and the type the tire installer has to install with the tire off. The latter is better if you live somewhere people like to steal anything not nailed down.
Add some decals, stripes, or pin striping if the paint job is still good and you have a new-to-you truck. All for under $600 or so depending on how crazy you go with the decal or pin striping stuff.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:29:14 AM PDT
by
Boomer
(The dem party has become the North Korea of American politics; unreasonable, dictatorial, fascist.)
To: Flick Lives
People are insanely in debt and getting in deeper...
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:39:30 AM PDT
by
piasa
(...)
To: 867V309
No, I’m just a practical person. Having ridden in sticks when I was younger, it is safe to say they have no purpose in an area with so much congestion. Kinda like owning a motorcycle here - too much traffic and bad weather for riding.
You wouldn’t have to worry about me at the Bulge; I wouldn’t have fought to relieve the Axis pressure on Stalin.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:42:01 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t think I’d want to get into a $47,000 truck with what is usually clinging to my shoes.
Unless a Democrat owns the truck...
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:42:33 AM PDT
by
piasa
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