If your ok with a double cab instead of the crew cab there are lots of good deals on those. If my kids weren't going to be in these giant car seats for the next 5 years I would get a double cab my self.I have been thinking the same thing. I need a new truck, been looking at used ones and really want a 2017 or newer F-250 or 350, but the prices are off the chart. Thinking about just ordering a new 2021 Chevy 2500HD WT 4x4 with extra cab. This is the truck I am looking at and this is with GM discount. I hate to pay this for a truck.....but will probably last me the rest of my life, I hope.
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I dont think the prices are a direct reflection of covid. I think trucks have been over priced for years. If you pay 70 grand for a new truck used its going to cost 55k. By the time its actually at a realistic price they'll be illegal and we'll have to pony up 100k for an electric "truck".
I remember when my grandfather went to the dealership to replace a key and they told him it would cost $60(2010ish). He walked out and vowed from that day to never own another vehicle that wasnt made in the 50's. I wonder sometimes what he'd think of today's prices.
I was wondering about this. Didn't Cash for Clunkers destroy the cheap market for used cars?
Typical of government programs that try to "help". They most often create more problems than they solve.At the time, yes, but that's been ages ago now. It completely destroyed the junkyard inventory of heaps of '80s-'90s cars since it was so profitable for people to C4C them than to just trade them in and on down the chain of parts they would go. So the only used cars for sale were either very old or very new. You couldn't touch anything in the middle for years.
That's the biggest crime of that program. The cars had to be crushed and couldn't have their parts sold. It sent scrap prices off a cliff for years after that too.
Typical of government programs that try to "help". They most often create more problems than they solve.
Yeah, CFC came out about the time my teenage son needed a car(s). Made finding a good used car at a decent price really difficult. Another brilliant idea from people who have never worked outside of the government.I was wondering about this. Didn't Cash for Clunkers destroy the cheap market for used cars?
So eight years is almost 3,000 days. If you pay an extra $3k for new it is costing you $1 per day, so add or subtract depending on your variables.I tend to drive them forever.
I was wondering about this. Didn't Cash for Clunkers destroy the cheap market for used cars?
It's like the rule of 3 F's applies here. "If it Flies, Floats, or ****s, don't buy it, rent it."Sports cars, luxury cars, things that depreciate quickly buy used. Entry to mid-level trucks, Jeep Wranglers, etc, buy new.
No. It's been posted before but I don't care enough to search it out again. The number of vehicles taken out of circulation was miniscule even compared to a month's worth of manufacturing of new cars. Of that miniscule amount, even a more miniscule amount would still be on the road today.
Same here. '97 Dodge Ram rust bucket. Oh! I guess it's 24 years old now! One more year and I can get a "Classic" plate.I mean, my truck is 23 years old, but I fully realize that is not an ordinary situation.