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Armacham posted:This one is my favorite Sir, I was riding in my limousine through this fine neighborhood, and I couldn't help but notice this price specimen, this stunning and expensive truck. How would you like to come work for a real winner such as myself? Edit: meant to say prize specimen, but frankly, price is more appropriate. SpelledBackwards fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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SpelledBackwards posted:Sir, I was riding in my limousine through this fine neighborhood, and I couldn't help but notice this price specimen, this stunning and expensive truck. How would you like to come work for a real winner such as myself? I think the idea is that he can now drive to various places and hand deliver his resume, but it's still stupid. I guess public transit doesn't exist? And from what else I was told, he's mostly been looking at government work, so all the applications are done online anyway. Senf fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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Dec 8, 2015 08:18
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They already had a truck, though
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il serpente cosmico posted:They already had a truck, though It probably wasn't new enough  And yes, I'm pretty sure it was offered to him for free but I'm not totally sure. They gave them the $3,000 they made by selling it, so I think him getting the truck for free is a safe assumption.
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SpelledBackwards posted:Sir, I was riding in my limousine through this fine neighborhood, and I couldn't help but notice this price specimen, this stunning and expensive truck. How would you like to come work for a real winner such as myself? Plot twist: job is commission only sales buying and selling horse equity.
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Dec 8, 2015 13:39
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Senf posted:Earlier today, I learned that a friend's relative just purchased a brand-new double cab truck for $32,000. It isn't a terrible purchase by itself, however: What the heck is it with Americans and trucks? They seem to be the "sports cars" of the younger generation. Impractical, gas guzzling, expensive. Plus, they must be absolutely impossible to park.
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BarbarianElephant posted:What the heck is it with Americans and trucks? They seem to be the "sports cars" of the younger generation. Impractical, gas guzzling, expensive. Plus, they must be absolutely impossible to park. It gets a lot easier when you realize the yellow lines in the parking lot are just suggestions.
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BarbarianElephant posted:What the heck is it with Americans and trucks? They seem to be the "sports cars" of the younger generation. Impractical, gas guzzling, expensive. Plus, they must be absolutely impossible to park. Marketing. Truck owner = self reliant cowboy/blue collar. Watch an American pickup add sometime. Its all about all the manly and blue collar things you will (never) do with it and tough tough it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Ab2VT-g6s  -Zydeco- fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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Dec 8, 2015 15:41
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Corolla ain't got no hemi.
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Dec 8, 2015 16:05
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The Corolla had a Hemi back in 1971 http://www.hemmings.com/hmn/stories/2007/11/01/hmn_feature17.html
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Dec 8, 2015 16:09
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-Zydeco- posted:Marketing. Truck owner = self reliant cowboy/blue collar. Watch an American pickup add sometime. Its all about all the manly and blue collar things you will (never) do with it and tough tough it is. This trend is maddening for me because I would like a pickup truck to do those manly blue collar things that I also wouldn't want to do in a pickup that cost 56-thousand dollars. I'd never buy new, but a regular cab (yes, they still make those) with a regular box (long boxes seem to be a thing of the past) and no options fancier than an AUX input on the stereo still runs you about 30-thousand.
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Antifreeze Head posted:This trend is maddening for me because I would like a pickup truck to do those manly blue collar things that I also wouldn't want to do in a pickup that cost 56-thousand dollars. I'd never buy new, but a regular cab (yes, they still make those) with a regular box (long boxes seem to be a thing of the past) and no options fancier than an AUX input on the stereo still runs you about 30-thousand. Buy a used truck, since New Vehicles Are Always Bad With Money?
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Antifreeze Head posted:This trend is maddening for me because I would like a pickup truck to do those manly blue collar things that I also wouldn't want to do in a pickup that cost 56-thousand dollars. I'd never buy new, but a regular cab (yes, they still make those) with a regular box (long boxes seem to be a thing of the past) and no options fancier than an AUX input on the stereo still runs you about 30-thousand. Those trucks always have the most wiggle room in the price too. You can get 10k off sticker with good timing. Still wouldn't buy a new truck, but you COULD!
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-Zydeco- posted:Marketing. Truck owner = self reliant cowboy/blue collar. Watch an American pickup add sometime. Its all about all the manly and blue collar things you will (never) do with it and tough tough it is. Manly stuff, like remotely opening the tailgate (0:23), wiggling your car's ears (0:28), or towing your horse equity (0:36)? 
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Dec 8, 2015 17:26
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BarbarianElephant posted:What the heck is it with Americans and trucks? They seem to be the "sports cars" of the younger generation. Impractical, gas guzzling, expensive. Plus, they must be absolutely impossible to park. It's not really the younger generation, the top three selling vehicles in the US are pickup trucks and it's been that way since basically forever
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Dec 8, 2015 18:24
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Pickups have been popular here forever, but the $60K luxotruck is definitely a new beast. I keep waiting for one of the manufacturers to find the market top in this segment and am shocked at how well they do every time they blow through another price barrier. At this rate, the $100K 2021 Platinum Deluxe F150 Brougham appears to be headed for reality.
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Dec 8, 2015 18:54
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Look at these pussies with their little ute. They should get a truck instead. Something you could fill with 50 dead horses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh-aDFrGqNE
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Dec 8, 2015 19:10
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My friend just told me that she found out they bought the 4x2 instead of the 4x4 "because that would have cost a couple extra grand" 
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Dec 8, 2015 19:13
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The Ford F-650, the real-life Canyonero:
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Senf posted:My friend just told me that she found out they bought the 4x2 instead of the 4x4 "because that would have cost a couple extra grand" GWM 
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SlapActionJackson posted:Pickups have been popular here forever, but the $60K luxotruck is definitely a new beast. I keep waiting for one of the manufacturers to find the market top in this segment and am shocked at how well they do every time they blow through another price barrier. At this rate, the $100K 2021 Platinum Deluxe F150 Brougham appears to be headed for reality. They're nowhere close to the market top. The challenge is selling someone with that much money a $100k truck rather than a $60k truck and also an Escalade or something.
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I live in the prairies and I am still lauging my rear end off at the moronic oil rig workers who bought a new f-150 every year and now, are crying about not having any money.
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I don't understand, why would you need a new F-150 every year? Aren't they known for being 20-year light farm trucks?
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Dec 8, 2015 20:49
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Same reason old dudes buy a new Cadillac every year. Can't be stuntin on fools with last years model.
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If you actually need a big truck for your primary job, it's not insane to get one with comfort features since you're probably spending several hours a day in it. A huge, reliable drive train costs money, and if you're actually working in the thing, or have employees that do their work in the thing, the price is not insane. Someone using it as a mobile office is probably not buying a new one every year and putting flame decals on it, obvs, they're driving the drat thing until the wheels fall off. People who buy them for their commute are the same dudes who do Spartan races. Gotta feel like a tough dude, can't/don't actually do tough dude things.
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NancyPants posted:If you actually need a big truck for your primary job, it's not insane to get one with comfort features since you're probably spending several hours a day in it. The guys who use trucks for their primary job seem to have hideous old rattlebangers, because they use them to haul pipes and stuff, which tend to scrape beautiful paintwork. Vanity trucks seem to have tiny little cargo areas, just about big enough to haul a dead deer, which is probably the heaviest thing they are ever called upon to transport.
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If your truck has no scratches after a year, you probably don't need a truck. It's all about image, but that is true in all cultures.
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SlapActionJackson posted:Pickups have been popular here forever, but the $60K luxotruck is definitely a new beast. I keep waiting for one of the manufacturers to find the market top in this segment and am shocked at how well they do every time they blow through another price barrier. At this rate, the $100K 2021 Platinum Deluxe F150 Brougham appears to be headed for reality. It's a lot easier to get the IRS to look past your
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Space Gopher posted:It's a lot easier to get the IRS to look past your In New Zealand heavy vehicles attract a higher depreciation write off than regular cars. So there's an advantage. I'm assuming it's similar in the US.
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NancyPants posted:If you actually need a big truck for your primary job, it's not insane to get one with comfort features since you're probably spending several hours a day in it. A huge, reliable drive train costs money, and if you're actually working in the thing, or have employees that do their work in the thing, the price is not insane. Someone using it as a mobile office is probably not buying a new one every year and putting flame decals on it, obvs, they're driving the drat thing until the wheels fall off. When I worked at a GMC dealership, there was a guy that came in every year in the Fall and traded in his 4x4 Sierra 2500 for a new one. The ones he traded in always had between 70-85k miles on them too.
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The Mandingo posted:When I worked at a GMC dealership, there was a guy that came in every year in the Fall and traded in his 4x4 Sierra 2500 for a new one. The ones he traded in always had between 70-85k miles on them too. I bet that guy works in sales for the kind of industry where all his clients drive trucks (oil/gas, mining, construction)
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Edit: ^^^^ Definitely. Can't buy no poo poo from some city slicker! Gotta buy from someone who represents the failings of southern agriculture and education.Not a Children posted:I don't understand, why would you need a new F-150 every year? Aren't they known for being 20-year light farm trucks? The crazy part is that they can't even say it was to pick up chicks. There were no chicks.
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Blinkman987 posted:The crazy part is that they can't even say it was to pick up chicks. There were no chicks. Chicks don't go for F-150s just the gay community.
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Devian666 posted:Chicks don't go for F-150s  forever, stay outta Texas bubba
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SpelledBackwards posted:price specimen Delightful.
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I know I've posted about Australian property prices a few times before, but I have a doozy. So I have a mate of mine, he's about 24. He works in a Christian organisation, and all of his salary is completely through raising support. It's about $45,000 a year. If he doesn't have donations coming in, he doesn't get to work. His wife also works there, earning a similar amount, although she's about to leave and take up a relief teaching job. It'd be about $50-60k. Anyway, we're catching up. Shooting the poo poo. Then he tells me the house they're in - they bought. It's not exactly a palace, but it's fine. Three bedrooms, nice lounge area. Parts of it are renovated, parts aren't. It's 40kms out of the CBD, lots of grass. A mid-size pool. Houses on the street are going for $600k. They got it for $450,000. "Oh yeah...we saved on rent for a few years..." (they stayed in a place their parents owned) "so we were able to save up a lot. My pay just covers the mortgage and then we live off whatever the wife earns". With a job that is entirely dependent on raising support. Even if they paid 20% deposit, which I don't think they did, that's repayments of more than $2,000 a month. To say nothing of when interest rates rise. Why are Australian property owners bad with money.
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CelestialScribe posted:I know I've posted about Australian property prices a few times before, but I have a doozy. Are Aussie mortgage rates not fixed? I guess you can still get ARMs in the States, but I don't hear them advertised anymore.
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CelestialScribe posted:They got it for $450,000. If most of his pay is going on the mortgage then they must have a deposit in the 5-10% range. Only another 30 years of living like that and they can start saving for their retirement. Krispy Kareem posted:Are Aussie mortgage rates not fixed? Most people are fixing 1-3 years at the most so I believe this is in relation to future increases when they refix the mortgage. Devian666 fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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You can get fixed mortgages but at max they're for 5 years, most are for 1 to 3.
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canyoneer posted:I bet that guy works in sales for the kind of industry where all his clients drive trucks (oil/gas, mining, construction) All the trucks were in good shape, except for the bed. He was hauling stuff in it so it was definitely a work truck and not a show truck.
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