Thought this was funny

Wanna know what's funnier? Someone will willingly pay the asking price, and that's why used prices continue to stay fucked.

 

I think I'd lease a Kia Rio for 200 bucks a month before paying $25k for that truck. That still won't get you a 1st gen or a truck.

 

Also, I think it’s funny how the carfax tells the story of this truck. It looks like in its first ten years, it was used pretty regularly (8k a year - 80k total), then it was driven 2k a year till 2021. By the end of its first ownership, it was being serviced at Walmart (not that there is anything wrong with that, but for a “collector” truck, that seems funny). Then it looks like it went to a Toyota dealership, then to this dealership, which brought it up to Illinois from Texas. Now, it’s top dollar, and someone may or may not pay that much for it. It went from Grandpa truck to a “collector”.

https://www.carfax.com/VehicleHisto...X-NR_ZZeWM1hRpzd3Z8TB05ScRPJ4BWZLFIcpAR0FImNU

 

10-11k isn’t completely terrible, but I feel like I remember when there where 4-7k trucks with this mileage all day. I’ve been looking to buy either a 2nd gen or 1st gen, just to have, and the price creep has kept me away. I feel like to me there are better things you can buy for $25,000, but I do love me a nice 1st/2nd gen


This is the one I’ve been eyeing https://knoxdrives.com/vdp/20762872/Used-2012-Toyota-Tacoma-for-sale-in-Knoxville-TN

but I wish I had more garage/ driveway space.

 

The problem is that new truck prices are so stupid high that it makes these trucks a bargain comparably.

 

Depends how you look at it I guess. To me I can justify spending $45,000 on a brand new car much easier than spending $25,000 on an almost 30 year old truck with 120k miles.

Just using one of those inflation calculators online, $20,000 (roughly msrp) in 1995 is worth $40,330 today. A new Tacoma is very roughly $40,000-$45,000.