Noticed Something
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Noticed Something
Have you guys started to notice more F250/350's for sale once Diesel hit 3.80+?
What I've seen here lately is more trucks with for sale signs in the window. It seems like these are mostly people that have the SD w/ Diesel for ocassional towing/hauling - not folks that use 'em to make a living. I need mine on a daily basis for my work/farm.
I counted 7 on the way to work this am. 5 I passed & 2 parked along side the road. All were the upscale XLTs not just plain work trucks.
Wish Diesel would return to the normal cheaper than gas position it had held for years.
DG
What I've seen here lately is more trucks with for sale signs in the window. It seems like these are mostly people that have the SD w/ Diesel for ocassional towing/hauling - not folks that use 'em to make a living. I need mine on a daily basis for my work/farm.
I counted 7 on the way to work this am. 5 I passed & 2 parked along side the road. All were the upscale XLTs not just plain work trucks.
Wish Diesel would return to the normal cheaper than gas position it had held for years.
DG
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iv noticed alot of obs trucks for sale latly, makes me wish i had a big enough bank acount to buy them all. there was one sitting for sale thats been there for a couple monthes now and two more with forsale signs in the window in the last week or so
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i typicly tow bewteen 8-10k lbs somtimes more somtimes less so i could get away with having a gas truck i did for years before i bought my powerstroke, but i could not see going back to gas. for one thing i get so much better millage that even though its 3.89 a gallon compaired to 3.23 for gas. it still cost me less money to drive the desile. and it does it better. over half my millage is towing. i supose that if i had a desile becouse i liked the sound id probably be selling mine to
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Working in Detroit i see alot of newer NICE diesels that are sitting in the driveway with no plates. Obviously since diesel is so high these vehicles have been taken off the road because the owners cant afford them 
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Off topic but what is the price of diesel in europe? Most of there vehicles there are diesels.
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Originally Posted by SUPERDUTY_untouchabl
Off topic but what is the price of diesel in europe? Most of there vehicles there are diesels.
This is what i have hear ... Would like to know how true it is (?)
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not around my area. I read the want ads a lot too, interestingly the F series trucks almost always have larger asking prices than equivalent other make trucks.
I have 5 friends that bought brand new diesels in the past 8 months, all recreational users, and the price of diesel has been well over $3/gal the whole time (at least someone is keeping the economy going (a little)).
I have 5 friends that bought brand new diesels in the past 8 months, all recreational users, and the price of diesel has been well over $3/gal the whole time (at least someone is keeping the economy going (a little)).
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That's what I think we will be seeing more of: recreational use of the big trucks as opposed to us driving these beasts on a daily basis. I was doing that for a while but I was spending $600 a month on fuel. I parked the big truck and got a little used Bimmer that gets me 23 mpg in the city. Now I just fire up the F350 on the weekends when I need to haul my horses.
I would drive the truck anyday over the BMW (although in all honesty it is a fun car to drive); just love the big truck.
I would drive the truck anyday over the BMW (although in all honesty it is a fun car to drive); just love the big truck.
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Originally Posted by randomhero1172
I always thought this as well - But i have also heard from many europeans that this is untrue! Most cars are small 4cylinder turbo charged gas engines. Diesel vehicles are TAXED very heavily in Europe. From the fuel itself to the tabs and registration. MUCH higher then "Petrol".
This is what i have hear ... Would like to know how true it is (?)
This is what i have hear ... Would like to know how true it is (?)
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I was born and raised in Germany and, consequently, still have friends and family over there. A good friiend of mine goes over there 2 to three times a year (he owns a import car repair shop here) and he informs me that approximately 50% of all of the passenger cars are diesel. He is not particularly fond of diesel so he was very surprised last year when he borrowed a friend's car and it turned out to be a diesel (a Peugeot, I think) and he did not even know it (it was quiet, powerful, etc.) Europe is way ahead of us on the diesel curve, that is for sure.
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like 55% of currrent new car sales for the last few years have been diesel in europe. if i remember correctly. the proportion of cars in europe that are diesel vary from country to country. germany has more than greece, the uk has more than sweden.
i just moved back from there a little over 2 years ago and yes, fuel is expensive, car taxes are expensive, insurance is expensive, but they have many options of transportation available to them besides a car.
when i lived in london i hardly ever used my car, never needed to, everything i needed was a few minutes walk away.
in greece i drove but that was because i chose to live on the beach and the base was not along any mass transit route. but it was not a very far drive at all, maybe 6 miles.
i have seen lots of trucks here for sale, the toyota dealer here has more used trucks on their lot than the ford dealer has new. the mazda dealer had lots of trucks but seems they gotten rid of all but a handful, i am guessing hauled off to auction because they all disappeared in one day.
i just moved back from there a little over 2 years ago and yes, fuel is expensive, car taxes are expensive, insurance is expensive, but they have many options of transportation available to them besides a car.
when i lived in london i hardly ever used my car, never needed to, everything i needed was a few minutes walk away.
in greece i drove but that was because i chose to live on the beach and the base was not along any mass transit route. but it was not a very far drive at all, maybe 6 miles.
i have seen lots of trucks here for sale, the toyota dealer here has more used trucks on their lot than the ford dealer has new. the mazda dealer had lots of trucks but seems they gotten rid of all but a handful, i am guessing hauled off to auction because they all disappeared in one day.