Eventually the call of the newer trucks gets to us all.
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Eventually the call of the newer trucks gets to us all.
One of the secrets to building wealth is the never buy a new vehicle, you lose money the minute you drive it off the lot. Once you have a little wealth still avoid buying a new vehicle, it is still an instant loss.
I prefer older vehicles and the wife prefers newer ones. She also never buys new, but a year or two old is good enough. I know whenever I do fine the percect Yukon XL Denali I will have to fix some things, it is acceptible to me, I have been doing it for decades.
My best friend just bought a 2017 3500HD Duramax, CCLB SRW Denali 4WD, fully loaded for $52k, it had something like 6,000 miles on it, he gave 52k (IIRC) for a 70k truck. In my world it was still too much but he is a doctor and to him it was a bargain, and compared to one with zero miles on it, it was. The guy who bought it with zero miles traded it back for the same truck as a dually, he lost 20k+ instantly, he probably didn’t care but what a waste.
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You're not kidding! The only full size line with manuals are the Cummins powered Rams and for small trucks you can get a 2WD Colorado or Tacoma. I don't know if the Tac comes in 4WD but I never seriously considered it. Sometimes it comes down to settling: I wanted a Ford and got a Chevy, wanted a stick and got an auto, wanted a long bed and got a standard bed, etc. The only thing I really got was the crew cab and I wondered how I lived without it. Even in older trucks around here, people want insane money for 200k beat up work trucks.Eh... I'm kind of limited in new trucks that I could buy. Mainly because it's basically impossible to get anything with a stick these days!