I remember my dad complaining about exorbitant new pickup prices. This was back in the seventies when prices were well south of 10K! If you think trucks are overpriced today, just wait until next year.
The reason new pickup trucks cost over 50K is because there are plenty of folks willing to pay that much. It's more profitable for a car maker to sell a million vehicles at 50K each than to sell two million vehicles at 25K each; it makes no sense for the manufacturer to make cheaper vehicles that more people can afford. The only reason manufacturers make as many cheap cars as they do is to pump up their corporate average fuel economy ratings.
As for DEF, catalytic converters and diesel particulate filters, here's the deal: Either the manufacturers use them or quit building diesels. It's that simple. Or they cheat on their emissions certification like Volkswagen, and we see how that turned out. Folks complained about unleaded gas and catalytic converters when they were mandated in the seventies, but now we just take them for granted. And we see how the same is proving true for the diesel emission controls: folks just accept them as part of the price of owning a new diesel.
I've owned four different Chevy pickup trucks ranging from 1980 to 2017 model year. Each one was about twice as expensive as the previous one, and each one has proven to be twice as good as the previous one.
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