Posted on 10/12/2017 1:04:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Heated and cooled seats. Backup cameras. Panoramic glass roofs.
Not exactly what springs to mind when you think of a pickup. But that's what American truck buyers increasingly want, spending an average of $46,844 on a pickup, according to Kelley Blue Book. That's more than the starting price of luxury SUVs like the Mercedes GLC or the Lexus RX. In 2016, pickup trucks made up a little more than a third of all vehicles that sold for over $50,000.
At the State Fair of Texas this month, Ford Motor Co. is displaying its most expensive pickup yet: The F-Series Super Duty Limited, a luxury heavy-duty truck with a starting price of $80,835. It has custom two-tone leather seats, a heated steering wheel wrapped in hand-stitched leather and high-tech features like a 360-degree camera system that guides drivers when they're hitching up a trailer.
A fully-loaded F-450 the biggest version of the Super Duty will top out at $94,455. It's capable of towing an Air Force F-35 fighter plane, but it also has massaging seats.....
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“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.
You need training before soloing on one of those things!
Agree!
wow! cheap dull chrome plated plastic and chinese lcds! Here’s my 10 year indebtedness!
They do. They're called "fleet trucks" and most dealers sell them.
"...luxury trucks..."
... 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.
How many people can drive a manual now?
I have one of maybe little over half dozen manual Tacomas in the SE.
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.
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.
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.
People are insanely in debt and getting in deeper...
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.
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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