I use trucks to make me money in my fence installation business. So if I need one I buy one that is reliable, comes with a warranty and I really don’t worry about the price. I just pass the cost onto the customers just like every business in America does now. Just my opinion

Heard this might be last year V8 can be built and put in trucks because of 2025 regs. I’m waiting for the guberment to lead by example and switch their fleets to electric.

If Henry Ford could see it now.

You better get a new truck asap.before the price goes up,and they pull all the old gas guzzlers off the road.Not only that but they are supposed to stop making internal combustion vehicles not too far down the road.I wouldnt wait.

the govt needs to get out of vehicle requirements.

if a new truck without any circuit boards or computers, without any smog devices, with a carburetor, no seat belts, no radio, a simple standard transmission could be ordered, you could get a new pickup for 20 grand. call your congressman and thank him for the price of pickups

If a recession hits trucks will get cheaper.

Pickups have become the modern equivalent to what station wagons were in the '60's.
Most never haul or pull anything heavier than a new grill for the backyard.

Add that to the fact that Americans are fat and lazy and love their comfort.
A modern base pickup therefore comes with more stuff than years ago when we weren't so soft.

High demand for everyday driving to walmart while riding in the lap of luxury means more money.

Last Pickup I bought new was about 20 years ago. GMC heavy 3/4 ton, 2wd, and ZERO OPTIONS, 20K approx.

My wife has a Honda Minivan, I see that as a much more utilitarian vehicle for the majority of people than a pickup is. They cost less, can carry a full sheet of plywood inside along with 10ft long boards, hauls 7 people very comfortably and get 25 mpg while doing it.
But in our status driven society most men with issues surrounding their "manliness" are afraid to drive one.

I wonder how much of the cost goes to retired employees, at one point over 40% of the msrp of a vehicle was to cover uaw members that were no longer working.

the govt needs to get out of vehicle requirements.

if a new truck without any circuit boards or computers, without any smog devices, with a carburetor, no seat belts, no radio, a simple standard transmission could be ordered, you could get a new pickup for 20 grand. call your congressman and thank him for the price of pickups

The truck you describe won't sell enough to justify production. Carbs when that's all we had were ok, but I wouldn't want one today, unless it was a hobby classic truck or car. demand, competition and availability drive prices. Vehicles from back in the day are cool, but required lots more maintenance.