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Wow! Very nice but I'm guessing I could sell you my farm for less money.
All decked out with most of the options shown it would be around 60K. I paid 19K for my first house, 45K for my second house, didn't rise above that truck cost until my third house after 28 years of working at my job.
I read somewhere that the average selling price of a 2020 F-150 is $46K.
And I see tons of them around here and they rarely are being used to haul cargo or tow something. I guess the need is to ride up high, have a giant mass of a vehicle that wins in a wreck and makes the driver feel good.
So Kudos to Ford. They really must know what their customers want and they developed a product to fulfill that need.
I read somewhere that the average selling price of a 2020 F-150 is $46K.
And I see tons of them around here and they rarely are being used to haul cargo or tow something. I guess the need is to ride up high, have a giant mass of a vehicle that wins in a wreck and makes the driver feel good.
So Kudos to Ford. They really must know what their customers want and they developed a product to fulfill that need.
Comfort. Looks. Options.
Likewise, I hardly see anybody racing in there sports and muscle cars!
The majority of sedans are running around with only a driver.
Wagons, Suv's, and crossovers are most often seen with just a driver and no family or gear.
Jeeps and offroad SUV's are hardly seen dirty and covered with mud.
Why don't we all just drive smart cars as that is all we need.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I read somewhere that the average selling price of a 2020 F-150 is $46K.
And I see tons of them around here and they rarely are being used to haul cargo or tow something. I guess the need is to ride up high, have a giant mass of a vehicle that wins in a wreck and makes the driver feel good.
So Kudos to Ford. They really must know what their customers want and they developed a product to fulfill that need.
That does 't seem bad considering that the sticker on my 2017 was $46,800. Of course I got a good discount and only paid $36k at the time. I have probably made 6 trips to the dump in the last few months, and until COVID have used it often to pull our 25' travel trailer. For those that don't haul or two, the F150 crew cab (and even Super Cab) have far more driver and passenger room than most cars or SUVs, really comfortable for a trip. The back seat can easily hold to child car seats plus a large adult. Yes, they are safer too. When a Camry backed into the corner of my rear bumper the Camry had a smashed in plastic bumper, broken taillight, and trunk lid damage. I had no damage of any kind, not even a scratch on the heavy chrome bumper.
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Actually that's less than I would have thought.
Yep! The good old days of a decent $15,000 house with an $1,800 new truck sitting in the driveway are now long gone.
That was before my time.
Inflation has been amazingly similar for the truck and the house over 45 years. My first truck in 1973 was $2,500, first house in 1978 was $50,000. That's a ratio of 1:20
The current average truck is at $46,000, here the median home price is $1 million. That's 1:22
Inflation has been amazingly similar for the truck and the house over 45 years. My first truck in 1973 was $2,500, first house in 1978 was $50,000. That's a ratio of 1:20
The current average truck is at $46,000, here the median home price is $1 million. That's 1:22
I recently sold a small house (maybe 1500 sq ft) in a small county seat west Texas town with two garages, a large storage building, a fully developed rental RV pad on a half city, paved and curbed city block across the street form the city's new city park for $32,000. It was one of the most expensive properties in that area.
I've not been over there in a year or so but I'm sure you can still find a couple of $50,000 to $60,000 newer pickup trucks sitting in front of a couple of the less valuable homes in that same town.
For some reason, I suspect that there is more than a "far piece" in distance, valuations and ages between your first home and this small town west Texas but we're definitely talking about the same era. In 1973, I'm sure you could have bought a previously owned small house in this same town for $8,000 to $10,000. That was five years after I came to out to west Texas. I bought my first used home in west Texas in 1971 for $4,800.
That all said, I don't wish to encourage any of many folks now who seem to be seeking better opportunities and wealth in Texas. We still have lots of bugs, coyotes, cacti and sand burrs. We also have extreme and very unpredictable weather with snow, ice, dust and wind, extremely high property taxes, lots of unpaved roads, no natural lakes, few desert mountains and brown sand beaches, many stubborn urban and rural "wannabe" cowboys and farmers and a state capitol and large cities who try their best to destroy and control what's is left of Texas rural life. Then too, remember that we will always have almost 2,000 miles of soon to be almost invisible border with another nation and culture who alternatively loves and hates us.
But back to a better discussion of Fords and Ford trucks.
My first house was a new build in Marlboro MA in 1966. It was 2 bedroom, 1 bath Cape. The second floor has been finished so now the house is 4 bedroom, 2 bath. A 3 season porch has been added. Current value $450K.
In 1966 one could buy a new, full size car for $4,500 thus my house was about 3.6 times a new car. My last new car purchase was a 2017 Ford Explorer listing for $35K. My present new built, 1400sq ft, home in SC is valued at $160K so about 4.6 times times my car. Where I still in that home in MA when I bought the Explorer, it would be about 13 times my car.
If memory serves me correctly about 1982 I began paying more for a car then my first home, $16K.
I need a drink............LOL
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