Whaler27
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- First Name
- Alex
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- Oregon
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- 2019 JL, 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee Altitude Ecodiesel, 2005 Mustang GT, 2018 Ford Raptor, 2018 BMW R1200GSA, 2020 Honda Monkeybikes (2), 1972 Honda CT-70, 1980 Honda CT-70,
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- Saving the world :-)
I get it. And I’d be pissed.You make a lot of sense. The desire is high for a Rubicon. I will contact the dealer tomorrow and see what the go is. We might be able to do a deal but there are other options, cheaper, that will get me 90% of what the Rubi will.
it’s just hard to cop the $9000 over the agreed price Where I get nothing out of it.
I paid less than $4,000 for my first new Jeep in 1977. That was a lot of money for me then.
My 2006 TJ was in the mid $20k range new, and I thought that was ridiculous.
When I shopped for my 2019 JLUR and saw prices in the mid-$50k range I nearly crapped myself. There were over 70 new wranglers on the lot, and not one was under $40k.
My 2019 JL is CJ/Wrangler #8 for me. There is an inevitable ebb and flow in pricing as markets fluctuate with all of the influences discussed above, so you can be more or less lucky with your vehicle replacement timing, but the swing between a great buy during a soft economy with rebate and financing incentives, and a crappy buy (during most of COVID), is probably on the order of 12% or less. Based on the price increases I’ve seen over the last 40 years, and the high and increasing inflationary pressures we’re seeing now, I won’t be surprised if a standard JLUR hybrid is over $100,000 USD by 2030. In that context you might well regard your current deal as a bargain.
The moral of the story is, don’t ever sell a Jeep you love. Just replace components until they finally plant you in the ground. If I understood that 38 years ago I’d still have my favorite Jeep, a simple CJ-7 I could work on in the driveway…
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