I drove a fx4 250 and all i can say is wow! the truck was awesome. well built and a fine product but i wont be forking out the $52k they wanted for it. The power folding mirrors were just cool and the interior was top shelf. I willsay tha the headlights looked much better in person than in the photos. all in all a great truck but i dont know whp in the hell can afford it. he also told me tha the 450 kind ranch went for 62k.

 

Yea I know...

52-55,000thousands sss
is just too much money for a F250
What was ford thinking ;they get us into superduty's and then they jump up the price so we can't trade up..
I'll never own another 150 after having two superduty's and a couple diesels..
I hate to say it but ford is just thinking money grows on trees and not middle class trees anymore..
We guys went from 400-600 a month payments to now Ford thinks the majority can and will be able to swing 900 a month..Well our pay has gotten better every year but not that big of a pay hike that we can seemingly double our monthly payments..
I wonder if ford and toyota are teeming up with dale jarrett and trying to secretly screw this world up for ever..I don't see how ford will be able to sell these trucks at these prices in a volume that meets return profits..

 

Come on guys. The price difference for equally equiped trucks is not much. The truck I have ordered right now has $1,300 in options that were not available on a 2007 and costs $2,000 more MSRP than a truck equally equipped except for the new options. In fact if I just spec'd out an '07 on Ford site an an '08 on Edmunds that were exactly the same and came up with a price difference of a whopping $715. This included a powerstroke deisel. The moral of the story is if you can't afford the 2008 Superduty you couldn't afford the 2007 either. A 52-55,000 dollar 2008 is decked out with just about everything you can get. You can still buy a very nice superduty in the high 30's to low 40's.

 

I disagree... I purchased a 2006 in Sept and payed 42.6k for a fully loaded King ranch Crew cab fx4 and 20 wheels, I added the Nav system $1400. Oh yeah I got 72 months of 0% interest also.

$44k vs 52k and 5% interest the 2008 will cost you 10-12k more in the end.

For what its worth I still think that these trucks are worth every penny if they perform as they are supposed to. My next one will probably be the 450. No one makes a truck even close to that bad boy!!!!!!!!

 

First of all, MSRP is WAY WAY different than what anyone sane should ever pay. I get the X-Plan, which is usually a couple hundred under invoice. There have been reports of dealers offering them for $500 over invoice. I priced out a 2008 F-350, SRW, Crew Cab, Lariat, not with every option, but nicely equipt and had an invoice price of $44,994. X Plan will be around $44,500 or $44,700 I'm sure. No, there is no 0%, but I'd be willing to bet that in September of 2008 there will be 0% and probably a rebate or two.

Everyone is nuts if they think Ford is going to offer incintives on a vehicle that is just being released, so yeah, a nicely equipt 350 Lariat will cost someone $45,500 if they do their homework, but you're not going to get 0%...that's what the kicker is right now. I bought my '04 F-250, Crew, Lariat for $38,000 back in 2004. So for me, 4 model years different, $6,500 isn't TOO much to swallow. My '04 is paid for, so I am figuring a trade difference of about $22,000 and with 6% interest a payment of about $350 - $400 a month. I haven't ran these numbers yet so I'm not 100% sure, but if you sit back and think about it, they aren't THAT much more than the trucks we've been buying, but you are certainly Getting a lot more truck for the money

 

There is about a 3-4k difference in a Lariat to a King ranch with everything!!!!!!!!! Regardless of what year.

 

The moral of my story is that in 2001-2002 (just 4-5yrs ago) a lariat cc 4x4 could be bought for 400-600 a month payment and now in 2007 a lariat cc 4x4 payment comes to 900 a month averages.You can fill in the total purchase averages and it will come out the same monthly averages.

Yes you are getting alot of truck for the money but then too everything nowadays has alot of bells and whistles;they have them so they can sell them nowadays---its hard to sell nowadays a 45,000 non-loaded truck when just a few years ago a truck was 4 -5 thousand more than people wanted to finance and now these trucks are 15-20 grand more..
Extreme higher cost of living is taking from us too.Diesel fuel and gas is taking from our walletts incospiciously.Yes if you can't afford the fuel you can't afford the truck but common we could all afford it 5-10yrs ago ;thats because the trucks did not cost as much and even though it hurt our wallett we still could stretch the dollar.Now the diff is even higher fuel prices and a truck that is worth every penny but is way too of wack with our general middle class labor economy...
Nice truck though and I will have 1 soon but I have to be patient and let it come to me so that I can still balance my debt to income ratio;thats something that the US just wants to disregard and we are all paying for there mishandled leadership positions on ethics,economy and the health and welfare of the american people for the american people we shall set our priorities and there not, they have conartist agendas' that the american people have to buy into because we have no power
ITS A SCAM BIG GOVERNMENTAND BIG BUISNESS IS ONE..
Where is reaganomics 101 heck that would be the day when we actually had an honest president ..
Will I buy the new 08?yes ,in due time

 

Yeah, im not seeing much difference in price between my 05 and the 08 I went and looked at the other day. My 05 cc dually lariat lb 6.0 with auto trans and 4x4 was 52,000 and the 08 cc dually xlt with auto trans 2x4 with 6.4 was 43,000. You add 3k for lariat, 3k for 4x4 and you come in pretty close. Im sure the new motor is a little more money over the 6.0 and the main drawback would be the fact that they are pretty proud of the new truck, so no offers or good apr's......yet.

 

I can go buy a new leftover cc 4x4 duramax for 38,000
Yes that would be a good price no matter what brand diesel it is but
I don't want it I would not be happy..
The ford has a straight axle,biiger comfortable cab and this new 6.4 dual turbo..
I'm saying I'd rather drive my used 01 SD unstead of getting a new truck but
I do know that at the end of the day this new 08 6.4 is the truck that sets the example of what a diesel truck should be displaying in 2007 -08..
For what its worth I keep telling myself that 55,000 for a 6.4 with all the bells and whistles would be a truck that I could honestly not getted bored with or wish I had a different diesel engine.
I strongly and confidently look at this 6.4 and all these bells and whitsled options and can actually see these trucks and this 6.4 not losing out too much in the next 5-10 years to some other diesel equipped truck..
The only item that would flaw my judgement would be if the fuel prices spike really high and stey there or if a new diesel were to come out that gets incredible fuel savings such as 30mpg to 35mpg or an alternative diesel based fuel engine in the hidings somewhere
I really have been weighing all this and saying if I took the plunge for the 55grand would I be happy keeping it for 10yrs and I say yes!Only thing is that the new has to wear off from the public demand right now so I can get a good deal on one,maybe this summer a harley 6.4 will come out and I could get lucky and get it for 55,000 doubt it but I'm game planning

 

I was at the ford dealer in Dec. and had them price the same equipped 07 vs 08 and the 08 was actually 300.00 less than the 07. f350 srw 4x4 lariat.

My 02 had a msrp of 44,000 and thats almost 5 yrs ago now

I remember people saying they would never pay 30000 for a pickup - they all did!

 

Well, if you had an XLT and now want a King Ranch or Harely, then complaining about how the truck now costs $55 grand is a totally different ball game. When you compare apples to apples, the truck is realisticly no more money than they have been for the last couple of years.

I played with the numbers and stuff on KBB and found that an equally equipt Lariat is actually LESS money than an equally equipt FX4 truck. You know, after adding leather and stuff that comes standard on the Lariat. If I buy one, it'll be a SRW F-350 Lariat Crew Cab, nicely equipt for around $44,500 X-Plan Price or $44,900 Invoice Price according to KBB.com

 

I just saw a 450 or 550 cab chassis XL 4x2 on a lot around here and the sticker was 40K. An XLT 4x4 supercab 4x4 on E-bay was right around 50K. Way too much IMO. If it was the same for the 07, then the 07 was way too much.

I just can't buy trucks that cost a good portion of what my house cost and carry a higher payment. That's just me though.

I will say that I liked the 08 better in person than on the net. Maybe in 2020 I can afford one.


Mike

 

list on a KR 08 is over 57k list on 06 KR was just under 52k that looks like over 5k to me.....

 

Uhh... You could order an 07 F350 KR for 57k as well and you can order an 08 F350 KR for 50K if you want to. The difference in equally equipped trucks with the KR package is 2K with 1,300 of that being options that are included in the 08 KR that were not available in the 07 KR. The 08 KR that I have ordered MSRP's at 54K and I will be paying 49K.

 

Exactly.... 7k more than an 06.

My #s were for trucks with similar items other than the engine and tailgate step...




As long as you are happy that is all that matters...

And I am happy for you. I love new toys and this new truck looks like a winner.