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Originally Posted by stein_325i
Also the always forgotten Cadillac Escalade EXT. Honestly nows a good time if any to bring these trucks back, there's definitely a market for luxury trucks, just look at how expensive the big 3 have gotten.
A coworker of mine picked up a new F150 Hybrid Limited. The truck was $80k  Its incredibly luxurious for a truck, but I know for a fact he won't be hauling anything other than air and groceries.  |
I think that's the point. What would BMW/Mercedes/Audi do that tops your friend's new F150? If Ford still has the King Ranch trim, it gets no more luxurious than that. BMW has no platform for a pickup. I guess the X5 could be used and to do a Honda Ridgeline copy (unibody pick up). The higher trim level American pickups are used for horse life. Well-funded folk live the horse life, and buy luxury items to support that lifestyle.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."