Looking to purchase this escalade, thoughts on price.

[sickk23]

And anyone that has a mortgage on a $300K home and is buying a $100K vehicle is doing it wrong.

This is true if you live somewhere with a higher cost of living. But say Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, New Mexico, a $300-400k house is super nice and a lot of people have Escalades and Range Rovers.

 

[15YUKON]

Well I think I was pretty dumb to buy it. It's a expensive tin can that everything breaks on not worth 80k in my book. At this point I could go pick up an old expedition with 200,000 miles on it for dirt cheap and it would be more reliable than this. I know many people who run old vehicles with high mileage that don't have near the amount of problems. Value is what the consumer perceives and I don't see these the same as before I owned one, if I were to get another they'd have to pay me to take it.

 

[cardude2000]

This is true if you live somewhere with a higher cost of living. But say Alabama, Tennessee, Oklahoma, New Mexico, a $300-400k house is super nice and a lot of people have Escalades and Range Rovers.

That's fair. I guess as long as the vehicle price isn't more than 20% of your take home then it doesn't really matter.

 

[ta08hoe]

I bought a 2001 mustang gt convertible with 190k for 2000$ not running put a fuel pump in it and was driving it next day lowered it new headlights grill delete tune up and x pipe still driving it as a dd has 200k and not one hicup

 

[ta08hoe]

I'm all about high mileage but the rebuild dpsnt scare me looking forward to it in fact going forged and boost when it dies

 

[GTNator]

Well I think I was pretty dumb to buy it. It's a expensive tin can that everything breaks on not worth 80k in my book. At this point I could go pick up an old expedition with 200,000 miles on it for dirt cheap and it would be more reliable than this. I know many people who run old vehicles with high mileage that don't have near the amount of problems. Value is what the consumer perceives and I don't see these the same as before I owned one, if I were to get another they'd have to pay me to take it.

Wouldn't you say the older body style Suburbans (and variants) were better quality, like the Expeditions you reference? I still see tons of old Suburbans on the road.

Also interesting that you look at these vehicles so differently now. I probably would too if I went through the issues you did with yours. So what's your plan to replace your Denali? New Expy? Or old Expy perhaps?


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[15YUKON]

Yes I would like to trade in when the 18' Expedition comes out. That being said I don't mind the current gen either. I like the FX4 and I like the Platinum. I would agree the older suburbans were a well built truck with less headaches. It seems the 00-06' models were very good still see a lot of them around and it doesn't seem they have the quality issues and defects the newer models suffer from.