Shea...I think I love ya...but don't tell my wife!
MAC, I'm not sure what your point is with all the numbers and sales costs...but from my understanding, a new H1 is somewhere in the neighborhood of $117,000, and it apparently rose to this point having started at nearly half that almost a decade ago. Course, the H1 has massively evolved....each being fairly unique to eachother....so it's very hard to run comps.
I've seen the G500...and it is not even in the same class as an H2 in terms of suspension and capability. Sheesh...it's an Isuzu Trooper with chrome. Being an H2 forum, I'm gonna plead the "forest gump" and say "that's all I have to say about that". Let's not talk G-box.
Your probably right about the shock-value thing when they threw those high prices at us for survey purposes. But when they put together all their upgrades (engine, interior, nav system, etc)...they'll use it as an excuse to jack the price far more then the mere cost of the upgrades alone.
Today we see dealer-greed and supply/demand screwing with the prices. That'll pass eventually. The price increase I refer to will be based on the typical "redesigned" and "upgraded" qualities they'll be engineering into future models. Trust me, this is our fun....but this is their living.
We did not make any mistakes on buying now! The increases I speculate will likely elevate the value of our vehicles such that we MAY likely be able to sell our used H2's for close to what we paid for them. No matter...if we can own these toys, we're NOT counting on anything in terms of resale...we bought it for the smile-factor! God Bless America and our decadent life-style!
Unless gas prices go crazy...I think our H2's will enjoy the best value retention of any SUV being made today. The worst is probably the Land Rovers...a discovery today will be worth about half what you paid for it in about 3 years; bloody pathetic!
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