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"Logansteno: Bought a VW?" (logansteno)
11/15/2016 at 17:50 • Filed to: None

I had to PDI a Cardinal Red single cab, long bed 4x4 Sierra 2500 with the 6.0L Vortec at work today. The only options were power accessories and the 7" Intellilink screen. It’s like my S10s younger, bigger, stronger cousin.

I’d do very bad things to have this. Besides pay the $40,000 on the window sticker.

DISCUSSION (17)

CB > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 17:53

Jeez that’s a lot of money for that truck. Trucks are stupidly expensive.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > CB
11/15/2016 at 17:56

Cars in general are. A stupid little Encore I PDI’d yesterday that was one trim level up from base with cloth/vinyl seats, no sunroof, no nav, and the old 1.4T was like $27k.

jkm7680 > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 17:57

Jeebus that’s expensive.

CB > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 17:57

Bummer. Living in Canada makes the stupid prices worse, too.

Pickup_man > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 17:58

Funny, today for work I borrowed a Cardinal Red single cab long bed, 4x4 Silverado 2500 6.0L Vortec, with the same options, (basically none). Overall a nice truck, felt slow though, and wandered way too much on the highway but I liked it.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > jkm7680
11/15/2016 at 17:59

Yeeep. I bet someone could get it OTD for more like $32k though.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Pickup_man
11/15/2016 at 18:01

I noticed you really had to rev the truck to get anything out of it. This one didn’t have any wandering issues, but damn did it bounce around a lot.

jkm7680 > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 18:06

That’s true, but then there’s also those stupid rebates that nobody qualifies for.

shop-teacher > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 18:10

Sweet truck. Still having trouble wrapping my head around truck prices these days.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 18:18

The duramax moves this truck pretty well. I have noticed that the trottle is quite stiff and you have to actually press it fairly hard to get much of a response.

LongbowMkII > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 18:21

At 40k it seems worth it to spring for the duramax.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > LongbowMkII
11/15/2016 at 18:27

I dunno, the Duramax itself almost adds $10k to the price.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > shop-teacher
11/15/2016 at 18:29

Pretty much every car I’ve PDI’d has given me some form of sticker shock so far. The Terrain SLT V6 I did this morning was over $35k.

LongbowMkII > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 18:35

I was pricing 2wd reg cab diesels all day under $45k

shop-teacher > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/15/2016 at 18:44

Crazy. Only 10 years ago the sticker price on my crew cab Sierra was under $28k (and I was out the door for under $22k). I know the new ones are nicer, but they aren’t THAT much nicer and it hasn’t been long enough to fully blame inflation.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > CB
11/15/2016 at 22:34

$10 for Wendy’s. TEN DOLLARS, WTF CANADA

Pickup_man > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
11/16/2016 at 09:21

I was surprised, I’ve driven several of the new GM trucks and didn’t have much a problem, but this one felt like the steering wheel wasn’t connected for the first 15 degrees of movement.