To put things into an Historical Perspective… If you compare the price of This One Vehicle selling at
$78,000.00 versus
The Original Chevrolet Model “T” Truck that had its public release announcement date on November 22nd, 1916 with a delivery date direct from the Flint Michigan Chevrolet Factory for early December, 1916 for the modest amount of
$595.00 ...
you could afford to purchase a Fleet of (131) Chevrolet Model “T” Pick Up Trucks for that much money! (Ostensibly… Unlike The Ford “Model T” Sedan… Chevrolet’s Model “T” stood for TRUCK).
The very idea that a Pick Up Truck could appreciate 131 Xs its Original Cost of Manufacture over 100 Years is completely absurd. I bought my First House back in 1976 for $25,800.00 and sold it 16 years later for $58,000.00 ...so even with that much money in hand, it would only pay off about 2/3rds of the cost for that One Truck. And THAT would be a Cash on The Barrel Head !!! NOT an APR Loan that would take (7) Years to Pay Off and in the end... would raise that cost astronomically for the average Truck Owner. This ...is the very definition of Insanity!
So much for Inflation... (Please... Nobody will EVER convince me that these vehicles actually cost more than a Fraction of their Designs, Materials and Assembly... No matter how wonderful their other Engineering Progress Updates have become.
A $78,000.00 Price Tag..?. Really...? For a vehicle that is assembled and welded together primarily by Industrial Robots doing most of the Heavy and the Complex work? This is Work being done by Intelligent Machines that NEVER get Sick... or Take Time Off... Or Ever Die... and Most Importantly when addressing the inflated $78,000.00 Price Tag... They NEVER Take Any Pay Checks for the Work They Do!
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As for the Human Involvement... These Latest, Greatest Truck Releases follow CAD Designs made at Work Stations by people who barely have to lift a finger to do any "Real Labor" to create these "New Trucks" from scratch. Has all of this “progress” made the average owners of Pick Up Trucks any happier than the owners were back in the days when they could actually work on their own vehicles after buying something useful and utilitarian? Sometimes… I wonder. Anybody who has THAT much money to pay for something that rolls around on wheels, rusts and rots away, wears down and wears out and is guaranteed to eventually break down sooner than later... should at least spend some of that Coin...
Having their Heads Examined! LOL
http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2012/10/95-years-of-chevy-pickup-history.html