I was raised poor. A truck like that would have been like a Cadillac to me. Now I can afford what I want instead of what I have to buy. The mfrs have neglected the low end of the market for the high end. Henry Ford had the right idea, make a car that everyone can afford, but the company that bears his name has forgotten that.............
Even poor people today would refuse to buy a truck like that today. You’re not allowing for how government mandates and customer requirements have seriously changed the marketplace.
What you’re calling the “high end” of the marketplace is now the high-low or low-middle end. No, really. That’s what competition and mandates have done to the marketplace.