05-12-2015, 05:34 PM
(05-12-2015, 04:19 AM)RolloTheGreat Wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars.../21334373/
Scroll down in the article for the list. Notice the GMC Sierra (what I drive) down there at 211K sold in 2014? Those are fancier Silverados.
Add them to the Silverado total and you've got GM and Ford full size trucks selling more than double what ANY econobox sells. (triple most of them)
The system here works for most people.
Read what I said GR. GM and Ford's full size truck sold over 700,000 units, no car that sells for under $20K sold over 350,000 units. So we have two trucks that have MSRP starting at $26K selling 3X as many units as the crackerbox cars selling 200,000 units.
You won't see any $26K trucks on the road either, my 2015 Sierra sticker was over $44K and it's not even the high trim line, just middle trim with some normal options.
Your attempt to spin makes my point even better though: You compared the sales of the top 3 selling $30K+ vehicles (GM/Ford/RAM full size trucks) to 16 other vehicles and found the sales numbers pretty close.
That alone pretty much proves my point Greg- you compared THREE high priced trucks to SIXTEEN lower priced vehicles and the higher priced vehicles were close even though they cost more and were less than 1/5 the number of models.
Not to mention your numbers included cars that sell for over $20K. (E.G. the two highest sellers (Accord, Camry) start at $22K MSRP)
"Stack'em high and sell'em cheap" may have applied to English grocery stores in the 1960s, but in the US auto market, we demand the opposite of cheap because we want to drive decent vehicles.