Why do so many Americans hate European trucks?

That's AUD I suppose? That would be about US $ 280,000.

Ask yourself where the money goes.

 

The truck prices are simply dictated by supply and demand. They change all the time due to many factors.

For example now, generally we have economical slowdown in Europe + new tachographs, which means less people buy new trucks - you can get them cheap.

I would become millionare having my cheap 80k euro Volvo in US, and I would be bancrupt buying new KW and using it here. We drive for different rates, but at the end of the year +/- we make same money (or better said, we can afford same things).

Nobody would be crazy enough to try to sell cheap truck for 150k euro here - nobody would buy it. But at the same time, you wouldn't try to sell it for 30k euro, because cheap trucks are being sold at around 65-70k euro here. So why sell it cheaper, when you can make more money.

And it's the same case with US/Australia, if there will be no demand for new trucks, rates will be ####, they will lower the prices to the point where they make 0 money, just to pay the bills, and survive hoping for better days. That's how it's working on this planet.

 

Not really. You don't understand too much about marketing. With this truck it is all about selling an illusion. The illusion that the buyer has bought the very best truck he can buy. In reality, all the technical components of that truck can be found on much cheaper trucks. That massive hood, all those big chrome components, it's all there to fool the buyer, and let him pay far more than the trucks is actually worth. That is what modern marketing does, selling you an illusion.

 

Best example of production process here and in USA

 

No, it's you who never runned a business, never bought, sold, used any equipment.

First of all, there's a certain thing called resale value - sometimes it's better to pay more in front, and get better price, when selling something. And it's the case of "hood". They just cost more than aero trucks when being sold used. And I'm not the one to judge if it's because people want them, or if they are better, they just hold value better.

Could they sell it cheaper? Yes propably they could, why they don't do it? Because they find people who buy them. And generally, those O/O who still run hood make better money out of single truck than huge fleets running aero trucks and excel spreedsheat. Think about it.

I always say one thing, if something looks stupid, but it's working, it means it's not stupid.

 

Living below sea level might qualify as not to smart........

Or no 15L engine available in a new truck........

 

Price of a DAF in your neck of the woods?

 

And there you have one of the reasons why it wouldn't sell in North America and Volvo discontinued it.

 

Hopefully he is not counting on that price break. Not going to happen. I remember back in 2006 when I bought my Dodge pickup. Some Dodge Rams were manufactured in Saltillo, Mexico where the plant employees make about $3 an hour and some were made in St Louis, Missouri where the plant employees made 10 times that, or more, but on the dealer lots Mexican built or American didn't really matter because the price was all the same.

 

Typical price.......




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