How does a truck go from 33k for a king ranch in 2004, to almost 70 grand for the same model today, a mere 8 years later? Did they start using 14k gold undercoating? Now, I know what you are going to say, emissions requirements blah blah, and supply vs demand blah blah, and increased R&D costs etc etc...

But seriously, check out prices of other vehicles in 2004, and compare them to the same models today, I have yet to find a car that increased in price over 100%? Is it because the auto makers are in the pockets of big government? And they don't want everyone to be able to afford a fuel guzzling monster? This has probably been gone over a hundred times, it just blows me away that a new SD costs so much!

 

You could get a diesel loaded king ranch for 33k$ ?

 

Hardly

You couldn't even get a XLT 4x4 F-150 for that price. My 2006 F-150 had a MSRP of $42,000. I paid $32k after TT&L

I found the original sticker for my 06 F-250 Lariat CrewCab and it was over $50,000. A KR is significantly more


We're you talking about used trucks at $33k?

 

Prices have gone up, but we're talking a few thousand only. Not tens of thousands

 

Thats what I thought.

I could be wrong, but I think the cost of thee diesel engine is actually decreasing, while the truck price is increasing.

 

I guess I'm not sure then? Maybe I'm talking out of my ***, but on my registration, my 2004 says 25,235 for list price in feb 2004, when it was first registered? It's a lariat crew cab 4x4 diesel

 

That may be what they paid after trade and money done

Def not full purchase price

 

The sticker on the truck in my signature was over 33,000. It's an 01 Crew Cab Lariat, 2wd, 5.4. I'm sure a 4x4 deisel King Ranch even in 01 was over 40,000.

 

Ok so I called a friend of mine that works in finance at a local dealer. He told me they put the list price of the vehicle brand new, before any options are added. So if my truck was 25, how much do I have in options, roughly? I'm just curious now of my original sticker price...

 

I don't know what it was "then", but I distinctly remember what the cost was on the 27th of last month.

 

Easily $20-30k in options. Motor alone was almost $6k I believe. Leather seats are typically about $2k. It goes from there

 

In the summer of 02 I bought a loaded up the max new 02 F350 4x4 V10 standard cab xlt truck and sticker was $33000, considering the diesel added $6000 and the king ranch could only be had on the extended or crew cab, at the bare minimum a kr diesel the sticker should be in excess of $40000 easy. At the time a standard cab xl F250 4x4 with the v8 had a $24000 sticker

 

Pretty sure even a gas King Ranch was over $40K. Original sticker price on my truck was $38K, and mine is just an XLT Supercab with a 5.4.

 

Back in 04' a King Ranch 4x4 CC V10 auto would sticker over $45k. I bought my new 04' XLT 4x4 SC V10 Auto in 04' with a sticker of mid $35k. With rebates I got it down to a little under $30k. To replace my truck now exactly the same would cost around $40k. So in other words there is no way any configuration KR SD would MSRP for $33k back in 2004.

 

i bought my 04 in my sig for 28k out the door in december of 2004. being a left over with the 05 trucks being out got the price down for me