re: Price of trucks

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I want a Tacoma but with their new facelift, they aren’t seeming to be as reliable and have suspensions issues and I refuse to buy a 3-5 year old truck with 50k miles for the same price as new one off the lot. It’s crazy how high the resale value of Tacomas are.

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Tacoma, 4Runners, and Land Cruisers hold their value better than anything not a G Wagen.

On Autotrader, there are lots of Tacoma TRD Pros with $5k+ plus dealer markups.

My f-I-l traded in a 3yr old 4wd Tacoma crewcab, base package, 100k miles. The dealer put it on their lot for $30k.

My nephew bought a 2016 Colorado 4-cylinder from me for financial reasons.
- cost he got 2016 truck 9,000 miles for $14k
- gas mileage is around 25 in city to 29 mph Hwy avg
- overall cost on maintenance tires when needed, gas, insurance, and maintenance cost are cheaper

#1 and best reason.
-His wife does not like to drive a full-size truck. She loves to drive the Colorado. He can sneak out and go fishing with me when she needs to haul flowers and stuff home.

He bought new tracker pro 160 and since he bought that we been fishing 3 to 4 days a week on $20 in gas.
His old boat burnt that much in gas on one trip easily. I laugh that was why I sold the boat to him it would easily burn $40 to $50 a trip in fuel. You lose some comfort you get more fishing trips.

As long as gas is this low, its gonna be like this. I switched to a car for a daily and restored an older truck that I only drive on weekends or when I need a truck. The prices of older trucks in good shape is also going up. An older 80's/90's Ford in good shape with 150K miles can run you $10K. But no computers, iron block engines, steel body and the entire truck can be rebuilt with rockauto or LMC truck catalog and a socket wrench. If you don't need a truck as a daily, its a stupid purchase just to show off your truck nuts in the starbucks parking lot. Your dick won't disappear if you drive something less. I owned nothing but trucks for 20 years but at some point the market just gets unreasonable when every slapdick suburbanite is competing for baw status.

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I want a Tacoma

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went in to buy a tacoma in 2006. toyota was offering 0% on tundra but not tacoma. bought a tundra with a lower note than the tacoma. never considered a tacoma again.

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Then buy a new one?

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That's what I wound up doing after Katrina took my paid for Ford Ranger parked in my driveway when it flooded.

I needed a truck and was looking for a used, relatively new model and the prices even then were ridiculous. Throw in the fact after the flood it was a seller's market for trucks and that made pricing them even more insane.

I wound up buying new for just a few grand more than what they wanted for a used truck, and I got a full size one to boot and not a small truck like the Ranger.

Sometimes it just makes sense to bite the bullet and go new.

I have a company replacement ordered. 2019 Silverado and the local dealership fleet sales could only hit $45k.....I got factory fleet at $38k.

While I have to wait 8-12 weeks, it takes off $7k.

And that is a 4x2 LT Texas Edition crew. Far from super fancy and the MSRP was $50k or so. Trucks are really expensive.

You can get a huge discount off the domestics cause they inflate the price by thousands for MSRP.

If you want a better deal, get a domestic, if you want a reliable long term truck, get a Toyota. You'll pay more, but it will last.

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Price of trucks

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Different day, same topic.

And they will keep going up in price as long as people are willing to finance them for as long as a home.