Well cost is certainly a factor. And consumer confidence that the vehicle will last. If there were confidence the vehicles will last say 200,000 miles or 300,000 kilometers on the original battery, that might help. but I’m not sure that is there. Not to mention that once the battery fails, huge battery replacement…

If you remove cars from the equation then he the old man wouldn’t have been able to drive there, and he wouldn’t have been dissatisfied with the service he received 2 years prior. Remove people and then there’s no one to use any weapon against anyone else.

Recall the antagonist was 78 - Dude would’ve ended up on his ass with a broken hip.

Kinda funny how this article didn’t mention the GM product this is based on at all.

If they live in the city, they are easily looking at $3k/mo in rent. My relatively cheap 2BR apartment 45+ minutes from the city was $2k/mo (5 years ago). You can’t buy a house for less than $400k in most of that region. When I lived there, you couldn’t even buy a condemned property for less $200k. Other than…

It is. I owned a 2015 Charger with the 5.7 and didn’t pay that much. This guy is driving about 3000-4000 miles a month to chew up that much gas.

My Volt gets about 45 miles.  Discontinued but very usable range.  

He should have waited. In my area Gladiator Rubicon’s are on lots for $48k today, with Sport models in the mid 30's. It seem that way everywhere. 

ALLLRIGHT! Time to get that $60,000.00 C8 Corvette.... what... why are you guys laughing?

LOL... I knew this day of $10,000+ rebates would come back... especially given how much Jeep raised their prices not that long ago.

A former colleague of mine went full mid-life crisis an bought himself a slightly used C6 Corvette convertible and got a crossed-flags logo tattooed on his upper arm. He got tired of the ‘Vette after a few years (hard to press the clutch with bad knees) and traded it in on a Honda Civic.

I had one as a rental, and rather liked it other than the length. It got ~20mpg, just like every other truck seems to.

20 mpg. I own one. But the rest is accurate. Lol

you aren’t hauling 4 wheelers in the back of a minivan, and you aren’t going seriously off road in a minivan. Minivans make great highway cruisers, for vacations but otherwise they are still just not that great as a pickup truck replacement. 

It would make financial sense to buy a plane ticket to CA, put yourself up in a nice hotel for a few days, and shop there.  Even if you paid for shipping back to MN you’d still come out way ahead.

Record high MSRPs and high interest rates, something has to give.

A reminder for everyone: Jeep raised their prices more than nearly any other manufacturer over the past four years. To a large degree, these discounts are not real discounts; they are Jeep prices simply going back to where they were just a short time ago.

Oof. I wonder how hard this is gonna hit the used market.

Around here in Minnesota, dealers still think it’s 2019. Not much in the way of discounts around these parts...

EDIT:  Holy hell, my closest Jeep dealer is actually asking for a market premium OVER MSRP.   Yokels. 

I’m good, thanks, but if I ever need a painfully slow and overweight jack-of-no-trades unaerodynamic lump of 9MPG-getting dogshit I’ll have this and most of Jeep’s catalogue to consider.