2023 F-150's are too expensive!
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03-19-2023, 11:28 AM
#22
You have to calculate inflation before claiming trucks are to expensive today. A 2000 F-150 Lariat SuperCrew 4WD base price was $32,500. Now compared to today, you couldn't get a XLT for that price. But when you calculate 23 years of inflation, in today's dollars that's $56,779. Today a similar truck is $63,810, a $7,031 difference. But you're also getting a lot more truck for your money. If anything, that 2000 truck was more overpriced than today's trucks when you consider it's equipment and capability.
03-22-2023, 02:14 AM
#23
Senior Member
Some of them did, though. How many stories have we all read about someone ordering a truck, waiting 8+ months for it to be built and shipped, to find out it was sold out from under them the day it reached the dealership?
Or people being told they are going to have to pay an additional $10k that was never mentioned during the order agreement?
Even if it's legal to do that, it about as chitty as you can get, and the purchasers definitely got screwed.
Imagine going through all the trouble of getting your financing in order, picking out the exact vehicle you want, waiting a long damn time for it to arrive, only to find out the day or week you're to take possession that it's gone, our you're going to have to pony up another 20%.
Imagine finding this out at the end of a four hour drive to get to the dealership. On top of killing your vehicle search for the past eight months and tying up your credit, they just cost you $100 in fuel.
In what other retail industry can this occur? If I showed up for my Krogers grocery to find out I was going to be charged 20% more than their stated cost when I placed the order, I'd be contacting the state. We call that a rip-off, a scam, a bamboozle.
Or people being told they are going to have to pay an additional $10k that was never mentioned during the order agreement?
Even if it's legal to do that, it about as chitty as you can get, and the purchasers definitely got screwed.
Imagine going through all the trouble of getting your financing in order, picking out the exact vehicle you want, waiting a long damn time for it to arrive, only to find out the day or week you're to take possession that it's gone, our you're going to have to pony up another 20%.
Imagine finding this out at the end of a four hour drive to get to the dealership. On top of killing your vehicle search for the past eight months and tying up your credit, they just cost you $100 in fuel.
In what other retail industry can this occur? If I showed up for my Krogers grocery to find out I was going to be charged 20% more than their stated cost when I placed the order, I'd be contacting the state. We call that a rip-off, a scam, a bamboozle.
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03-22-2023, 09:44 AM
#24
Senior Member
My 2020 XLT stickered for $48K. I looked at a 2023 XLT the other day and it stickered for $68K. And I got like 10K off of my window sticker, I don't think they do that any more!
The 2023 was nicer, it had the FX4 package and I think the higher 301A package instead of the base package. But it was still a 3.5 ecoboost crew cab, like mine, so I did think the price was kind of outrageous for an XLT. If it had been a King Ranch or loaded up Lariat, I probably wouldn't even have noticed.
The 2023 was nicer, it had the FX4 package and I think the higher 301A package instead of the base package. But it was still a 3.5 ecoboost crew cab, like mine, so I did think the price was kind of outrageous for an XLT. If it had been a King Ranch or loaded up Lariat, I probably wouldn't even have noticed.
03-23-2023, 12:21 PM
#25
Senior Member
casue these idiots are being enable by unrealistic financing. I have seen loans out to 7 years now...........horse****.......... amortize it out over 48 months an see what happens...............
03-23-2023, 06:26 PM
#26
You have to calculate inflation before claiming trucks are to expensive today. A 2000 F-150 Lariat SuperCrew 4WD base price was $32,500. Now compared to today, you couldn't get a XLT for that price. But when you calculate 23 years of inflation, in today's dollars that's $56,779. Today a similar truck is $63,810, a $7,031 difference. But you're also getting a lot more truck for your money. If anything, that 2000 truck was more overpriced than today's trucks when you consider it's equipment and capability.