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No, but a sprinter van is going to provide better actual utility for most trades and a 80k f150 platinum is a long way away from a white 2 door long bed which c
by tempest_ 9mo ago
No, but a sprinter van is going to provide better actual utility for most trades and a 80k f150 platinum is a long way away from a white 2 door long bed which can make the spend not make sense business wise.
As you say though I do see trades workers with the fancy pickup trucks (often with a trailer, cant scratch that bed paint aha) which I attribute to low interest on auto loans and poor business sense.
- Aurornis 9mo ago> but a sprinter van is going to provide better actual utility for most trades Certain jobs in certain trades, not all of them > and a 80k f150 platinum Base F150 starts at half that. This is silly
- tempest_ 9mo ago> Certain jobs in certain trades, not all of them Correct, which is why I used said most trades and not all trades > Base F150 starts at half that. This is silly The average new vehicle price in the US is 50k, people are not buying the base model.
- Aurornis 9mo ago> The average new vehicle price in the US is 50k, people are not buying the base model. $50K is much closer to the $40K base model than the $80K platinum model. Everyone loves to cite the platinum model as if all the contractors or CEOs or whoever were bashing today are driving it, but most people are not buying the most expensive models.
- parineum 9mo ago> The average new vehicle price in the US is 50k, people are not buying the base model. Half of the vehicles are below 50k.
- potato3732842 9mo agoWay than half. Average is dragged up by 100k F-550s with $100k service bodies installed on them and $200k+ exotic cars. There are no negative and zero dollar sales to drag down the average. This is a textbook example of a case where median would be better.
- alexjplant 9mo ago> Base F150 starts at half that. This is silly No it isn't [1]. > There seems to be no limit these days to how lavishly equipped, not to mention expensive, full-size standard-duty pickup trucks have become at the upper reaches of their respective model lines. [...] They’re brash and uniquely American alternatives to fine-tuned European luxury SUVs. For those keeping score, Kelley Blue Book says the average full-size pickup sold for $66,386 last month, due in large part to the growing popularity of such upscale models. Sixty. Six. Thousand. Dollars. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2026/01/14/the-costliest-pickup-trucks-now-command-six-figure-sticker-prices/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2026/01/14/the-cos...
- Aurornis 9mo agoHow dare those workers buy nice cars for themselves to drive every day! What were they thinking?
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- mlrtime 9mo agoLol, these people do not care about sprinter vans. The online crowd has such a love for sprinter vans, I don't see anyone talking about them except a very small group. The people around me have F250s + a trailer twice the size of a small sprinter. They can work and have a small house behind them when needed.
- potato3732842 9mo agoThe Euro vans (sprinter and transit) are very well suited to businesses who'll own new stuff, depreciate and trade in before it's out of warranty. There's a reason those things get exported to the low labor cost 3rd world from there rather than winding up on used car lots like domestic van based single rear wheel box trucks and utility body stuff.
- mlrtime 9mo agoOh I know they are good and I see them almost daily on the road. But it is a completely different market. Sprinter/Transit will NOT replace F250s.