I’m not saying that a set of snow tires costs $200. I’m saying that if you consider that you’re also NOT driving and putting wear on your 2nd set of tires, then the costs come out about the same. The average working age male (20-65) drives 15,000-18,000 miles per year:

All-season tires are derogatorily called no-season tires on various enthusiast forums for a reason. Unless your year-round tire has the 3 mountain peak snowflake, which is pretty much just all-terrain tires, then your mud+snow ambiguous designation doesn’t mean anything. The cost is easily less than $200 to have…

I counsel a lot of friends in car buying, and I’m active enough on various forums that you’re an outlier. People are so passive that it’s unbelievable. They’ll go to the dealership, and the dealer won’t have their color or trim, will sneak in add-ons that they don’t want, etc. and then STILL GO THROUGH WITH BUYING THE…

Why disappointing? They strive to be perfect, but no person and no company in the world is. They found this error early, corrected it on subsequent copies of the car, were able to discover it themselves instead of it coming out during an investigation AFTER a crash, and they’ve gone above and beyond to make the…

Is this the car version of the hipster “I liked them before they were cool?” Again, the sales numbers, residual numbers, used market values means that your hot take is in the extreme vocal minority.

Can you qualify “not trying very hard”? Because for me to hit that much, I had to choose a crew cab, 4x4, Lariat so fully loaded, and then hit pretty much every check box on the way down the packages/options list. It sounds to me like you loaded it up with everything but the kitchen sink, which is definitely trying…

Man, you must live in a state with that legal good stuff, pass me whatever you’re smoking! A freaking Toyota Corolla starts at $19k! How do you expect anyone to make a truck that is viable in the market for that little amount of money? Even if you took the 1999 Ranger which had a base price of $14,500 and adjusted…

Put your money where your mouth is. Look at the first comment here. There are various diesel options available in various midsize and half-ton trucks. Which one are you currently in? And are you claiming that if they had a diesel option, you would currently be calling up your salesman to put a down payment?

Thank god there’s some sense in this thread, finally. I want to bang my head against the wall seeing people say, “the same equipped F-150 is only $658 more, why would anyone buy this? I don’t know if they are using a 1999 F-series brochure to base their pricing off of, or what. Even a mid-trim 4 door, 4wd XLT shows…

What’s wrong with monthly payments? Mine are well over $500 per month. I’m guessing you aren’t very well versed in finance?

That isn’t what sales wants me to think. That is from my understanding in warehouse and plant optimization, that has bled into other industries. DevOps focuses on this in IT, and it has supplanted all of the usual buzzwords like “Big Data” and “Cloud” to become the focus of most keynotes, whether it’s Amazon, Apple,…

Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, etc. Go try to buy a 2006-2010 Tacoma, versus a 2006-2010 Tundra. Check cars.com, Autotrader.com, Cargurus.com, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, etc.

Not in US dollars, it isn’t! Please send me a link to this build, because it is wholly different than what I’m seeing.

That’s the same price as a base model Accord. It is well in line with current market pricing, especially considering what you get for that. The Toyota Corolla starts at $19,000 so it makes sense that this one would be where it’s currently priced.

No, that isn’t what he means. He responded to a comment that said:

That larger size of the F-150 is a hindrance if you’re parking, using it for offroading, etc. Plus, mpg doesn’t tell the whole story. With a larger, heavier truck, that means that you go through brakes and tires faster, need larger and bigger ones, etc. If your logic were airtight, then cars like the Miata wouldn’t…

Considering a 2005 Tacoma in a similar configuration is probably around $15,000 I’d say that it’s probably a reasonable price.

Your complaint is true of almost every car company. They are moving towards popular option package bundles. Yes, you can find a way to make it look like it’s not economically worthwhile, but by and large, it makes cars cheaper for most people by making the vehicle or package appealing to a larger swatch of potential…

Why not? The F-150's are still out there on the road in full force. Even if you look to their smaller vehicles, the small crossovers like the Escape are powering through life with aplomb.

Keep avoiding any facts and obstinately digging in deeper. On top of your idiotic “my anger adequately substitutes for an argument with substance” you’re hitting every stereotype of of a bad internet commenter. Except for 1 car out of 10, I’ve never used a dealership.