Beautiful truck but I’d rather buy a small house or some acreage with the $100,000+ price tags. The truck will be constantly breaking down, rusting, and worth about $10K in a few years. The house and land could double in price in some places in the USA in the same time.
Lots of vids on Youtube showing all the poor young saps who bought one and are now paying $1,200+ a month payments at high interest rates - for 10 year loans. Crazy, suicidal. They’ve instantly destroyed their financial futures with that one stupid purchase.
Plus Chevys suck. There’s a reason the Ford F150 is the best selling truck since the Reagan administration. And it didn’t help that GM took that massive, unnecessary bailout back in ‘08. Basstardis.
That’s because GM’s truck sales are split between the Chevy and GMC badges. They sell more trucks than Ford:
Full-size GM truck sales grew four percent to nearly 885K units in the United States during the 2024 calendar year, outselling the Ford F-Series and all other rivals.
“... the Ford F150 is the best selling truck since the Reagan administration.”
Try “best selling pickup EVER.”
The venerable F-150 had over 12 million units on the road in prominent Ford advertising in the mid-1970’s, and was already THE established best-selling pickup in the market, and the broader F Series had deeper market penetration than that.
My grandfather — a Ford mechanic who’d been working since customers were bringing Model T’s in for service — owned one.
My other grandfather — who began with J. P. Craig construction company as a laborer about 1928, and worked his way up to Superintendent of a DoD contract nuke-resistant munitions storage warehouse on a base in Yuma, AZ before retirement — owned Ford pickups.
We borrowed his along with his slide-in camper for a couple of family trips, before getting a ‘72 F-250 of our own in 1976, and I’d explored about every nut, bolt, screw and washer on that thing by the time it was wrecked in 1990.
Simplicity and a solid drive line was the heart of that success. Ford could put any engine in its lineup on the front end of a C6 automatic backed by a Dana 60 third member and give owners thousands of miles of worry-free duty.
UNLESS there’s a return to those ideals there’ll NEVER be another runaway market success like the Ford F Series.
Not EVER.