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25% = 25%. You can even type that into Excel and it will say TRUE.
On paper yes. But ask someone if they can afford for their cup of coffee to go from $2 to $4 and they'll say that sucks and keep buying. Ask them if their vehicle goes from $40k to $50k and I bet you get a different response. So, yes, 25% is 25% but a $2 change and a $10k change are far from the same
And there's the problem.
If a person expects to only get 10 years out of a truck, they have set their bar way too low. I fully expect to get up to 20 years out of a vehicle, and still have it in relatively good condition when I sell it and buy another. I drove my last truck for 23+ years, and the one before that for 13. This current RAM is my 3rd in 35+ years, and both prior ones sold for high KBB value.
Doc, I think the most I've ever paid for a pair of shades was maybe $20. But then, I lose most of them within a year over the side of the boat or dropping them in the duck blind then stepping on them.
Doc, I think the most I've ever paid for a pair of shades was maybe $20. But then, I lose most of them within a year over the side of the boat or dropping them in the duck blind then stepping on them.
I was being generous.
You are a realist that has your head above sand, the middle class I know around me don't think there is a problem they are credit card poor and using there 403'b, still buying new cars and upgrading their homes living for today don't care about tomorrow until you can convince the masses the price of new cars will never come down, and yes GREED, GREED, GREED
I just was reading what the UAW is going to start with when contact talks begin here shortly. They are asking for a lot, a 46% pay increase, and a 32-hour work week, the most notable wants so far. I understand the concept of asking for the moon and then negotiating down but if they get this or any substantial compensation, the price of a new vehicle, coupled with high interest rates, is likely to increase well out of the reach of the middle class.
Yeah, when I sold my Silverado in March of this year right after I went and picked up my RAM it had 190,000 miles on it after 23 1/2 years. So I guess I only put about 8000 miles a year on it. And I made a couple 3200 round trips from CA to Saskatchewan on hunting trips, numerous 1000 mile round trips from N. CA to S. CA, and one 2000 mile trip when I moved from CA to AR. And it was my only vehicle for all those years.
I don't know. Cost plus 10% seems fair. And by cost, I mean the cost to build and ship it.
No discounts, rebates, or any other incentives when I bought mine in January.
So how do we know the current prices are not cost + 10%? Also whose cost? FCA, dealer or ??? Unless someone is willing to spill the beans on whoever's cost we are talking about then it would seem we have no way of knowing.
