Originally posted by: PricklyPete
Originally posted by: Calin
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: funboy42
For prolly around $46K with tax and delivery that damn truck better do more for you then get you from point a to point b and haul stuff
GM and Ford PLEASE bring back the days of the no frills trucks with crank windows, no cruise, or leather seating, ac was 55 and 2 windows down, and a realistic price.
please go back to 1960 where you came from
There is nothing wrong in asking for a simple, inexpensive work truck. I wouldn't want one, but to anyone their own.
My car has no electric options and no AC - next car will have them, hopefully - but a car without AC, power windows, heated mirrors and so on is usable
I don't know what funboy is talking about. They always sell a stripped down, bare bones truck....it is just that nowadays they give you the option of a really "spiced up" truck as well. That's a nice thing.
Well I guess my point should of been a little more clear. Striped down with a rubber floor and a price tag of under $10K or way under $10K. Were talking sheet metal, some glass, and you clean the insides and out with a damn hose. A strip down NEW is almost 20K for what? A v6 1/2 ton and some sheet metal and air bags. I mean come on. Things tend to get cheaper as times goes on when things are built and updated. Cars and trucks on the other hand do not. Just stop and think about a stripped down truck. nothing fancy at all. Some sheet metal, an engine, diff, manual tranny, some glass, a cheap computer system to run the injection and emissions, and a air bag. And maybe decent metal for a frame. Some $50 rims and $200 tires. Simulated rubber seats and floor and a fm radio with one speaker. I ask you where is the $20K in all of that. The parts are put together like a model and every thing is mass produced and costs pennies each.
Seriously its out of controlled spending, out of control bonuses and pay for the higher ups, and everything is outsourced and made as cheaply as it can be. I highly doubt for one second in a striped down no frills, manual tranny, no ac, no cruise, bench seat, manual windows truck with no radio there is more then $3000 in parts total. Its CEO pay/bonuses, crazy stupid spending, federal hands in the cookie jar, high union wages and pension that has it way up there. Get rid of the air bags, the computer system, slap back in a carb for the damn things are getting the same fvcking MPG it has been or worse and its got more bells and whistles on it to break then ever before.
Strip that motherfvcker down to THE bare minimum with a straight 6 2brl carb, manual tranny, and give me a truck I can throw crap in, at, on top, the sides, jump, flip, take my hose and clean it in and out for $8k and make me one happy camper. I wont care if the paint peals off and I see primer like the trucks of the 80 and 90's did. I want down to earth prices and something I can use what I paid to use it for. And keep making these yuppy getters that people would be afraid to park it at the grocery store or put a tooth pick in the bed for fear it will get damaged or scractched and the resale value will go down. Give me one I can beat the fvck out of and thow it away when Im done and use it for what I want because I didnt pay 1/4 of my morgage to get it and it cost more per month then my morgage to drive! Dont give me a striped down version and tell me its will still cost $20K I want $10k or better. I dont like to be pissed on and told its just rain :disgust:. Tell the fvcks ontop to for once to REALLY give a fvck about the employees and not
THEIR pay checks. Take a gosh damn pay cut and save some families jobs! SHOW YOU CARE and others will follow! The Unions will see this and they wont bitch if they see EVERYONE is in it for the best of the company, and not the higher ups pockets. Stop making gas guzzling vehicles. America wants cars that are no frills, dependable, and wont break the bank. Stop shoveling over priced plastic out the door.
Damnit Ford and Chevy (sorry Fvck Dodge your sh!t sucks) you better start taking you heads out of your asses and take a damn good look at where your going and what the american people want. I just cant see how some lousy model pieces come off the line stripped down for almost $20K. FOR SHAME and no wonder your losing more and more americans to your products. You make a damn good product that does last, your just asking to much for plastic and bloated crap when the Japs can polish a turd better, make it smell better, and look prettier for less. You all got a bad rep in the 80's and 90s with crap cars and trucks, and now a bad rep with good cars that are over priced and attacking your employees blaiming them for high prices, plus you shut factories down, and lay employees off, without the big guys taking pay cuts themselves. We see this. Stop it, show America it has american automobiles and fatctories they can be proud of again! Make us believe!
ok rant over
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