HOW Does A Jeep Wrangler Sahara Have A HIGHER MRSP Than The FULLY Loaded Telluride? Time For ALL Prices To Drop?

I've been telling my agents for a long time now how overpriced vehicles have become and that a reckoning HAS to come at some point and things have to change.

Go price out a loaded Escalade...you're over $100k. In the words of Keshawn Johnson, "C'mon Man!"

Now don't get us wrong, we're not saying we don't like the Escalade but prices have gone insane.

Over 100k MSRP for a GLORIFIED TAHOE? By the way, it's my Dad's birthday in heaven today and he gave me the big for cars. So if you like this site and you're the prayerful type, send him a Happy Bday and thank him.

He had a LOT of funny car sayings, one being that every car to him that GM made outside of Chevy, would be described as a GLORIFIED Chevrolet. So that got me thinking today seeing that the only products right now that are over delivering in value AND specs are the Kia Telluride and Hyundai Palisade. Everyone is thrilled at their bang for the buck but honestly in our opinion, that's what a product like that SHOULD cost.

Today, a friend brought over his new Wrangler Sahara to show me (of course with masks and social distanced) and the MSRP was $56,000 and change. And as much as I like Jeep's I thought to myself how in the double hockey sticks is this thing SEVEN GRAND more than the MOST loaded KIA Telluride?

I don't know about you guys but A LOT of products are WAY overpriced and a correction HAS to occur.

What say you Spies? Which products need a SERIOUS price adjustment going forward?

cidflekken - 5/4/2020 12:11:57 AM

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Because Jeep can and clearly does. Try to price a Kia at $56k and see what happens. The Jeep right now competes in a segment with virtually no other competition.

jeffgall - 5/4/2020 9:28:45 AM

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Simple - Supply and Demand. The Demand is there and FCA will make the higher margin if it can. Also gives them more flexibility to put cash on the hood to drive the perception of a deal.

xjug1987a - 5/4/2020 9:34:44 AM

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GM, Ford & FCA ALL have higher costs than Hyundai/Kia and other transplants, due to the UAW... Clearly that needs to end...

rockreid - 5/4/2020 10:30:24 AM

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Korean car companies benefit from the S Korean Government supplying cradle to grave Universal Health Care, like most industrialized countries without the need for insurance companies or going into debt to pay for needed health services. Blame the UAW if you want for employee costs, but negotiating for health care for US employees is not their fault... it wouldn’t even be necessary if the US joined the rest of the civilized world and provided Single-payer health care. If you want to blame anyone don’t blame the UAW, blame Republican Billionaires for not wanting to pay taxes that the rest of the world pays as a matter of loving in a normal civilized country.

Vette71 - 5/4/2020 1:18:44 PM

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Note that in any of the proposed health care plans put forth in the current election cycle the money that companies currently pay for employee health care merely gets moved over to taxes. No savings there; in fact it will likely cost them more. Likewise the employees will pay higher taxes. There is no free lunch.

xjug1987a - 5/4/2020 3:25:10 PM

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First of all who cares about the rest of the world, they all want to move here.
We live in a free country not a "collective" like the UAW, or Venezuela or Cuba. We live in a Representative Republic and that freedom allows people to be stupid, like you. Its not that people don't want to pay taxes, its about personal responsibility. Since the 60's with the "Great Society" liberal cowards have been buying votes with the labor of hard working Americans. Many now give those tax dollars to non-citizens as well in order to someday buy their votes. As I suspect YOU are in the UAW you pay 3% of your healthcare costs and are more than comfortable if your employer goes bankrupt as long as your lazy @$$ doesn't spend one more nickel. What a pathetic hypocrite, OTHERS should pay more, but not you! Typical Lib-Turd.

No one wants to have the US system then tell me why everyone wants to not only sneak across the border but also comes here for Med Treatment, the USA is the finest nation in the history of mankind.

I blame the UAW as it's an 'us vs them" bunch of thugs that extort's $$ from these companies and funnels it back to the DemoRat Party. The last strike cost GM billions for what? None of the other companies have to deal with these thugs and none of their employees WANT the UAW. You idiots just stay in your hammock and smoke your dube's in the Job Bank while your employer goes out of business... again.

MDarringer - 5/4/2020 11:13:03 AM

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Why are we surprised that the Wrangler costs more? This isn't new information.

rockreid - 5/4/2020 1:46:06 PM

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The argument that taxes will go up does not include the costs for health care that will go down dramatically. The US with its current for-profit system pays way way more for health care per person than anyone else in the world. It’s not even close. The US has by far the worst health care when it comes to cost/benefit analysis by every single credible research paper published. Taxes will go up but not as much as paying for health care out of pocket for insurance premiums already take out of the average person’s wallet. The real taxes would be for Billionaires and they would maybe have to sell one of their overseas mansions, but not bankrupt them by any means. Plenty of Billionaires in even the most “Commie Pinko” countries like Sweden. The real test is to poll every country over which health care system they wish to have. No Country in the world wants the US health care system. Most countries want to expand their own Universal health care systems and fight to make the Billionaires pay more.

xjug1987a - 5/4/2020 3:33:02 PM

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Go ahead and poll the world, I can tell you what you'll find; Everyone wants the finest healthcare on the planet and wants someone else to pay for it, which means, FREE, to them. Pretty sure they'd all say the same thing for housing, vehicles, phones (actually called ObamaPhones), color TV's, internet, food, etc... all better known as the US Welfare System (Great Society).

MDarringer - 5/4/2020 4:14:12 PM

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I thought we were discussing car prices.

xjug1987a - 5/4/2020 4:28:56 PM

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I keep trying to stay out, but they keep pulling me back in.....

MDarringer - 5/4/2020 6:01:05 PM

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I understand, It's kinda like Joe Exotic and how young men just keep making him want to get married. He just can't resist.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 5/4/2020 6:11:47 PM

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Precisely. Jeep is priced like an ICON. Buy it if you want (like an Apple phone) or don't. But don't complain. It isn't worth the sum of its parts to many, but to some it is. It's not the math, it's the goodwill of the brand. You don't have to like it. It is similar to Toyota charging so much for a TRD Pro 4Runner. Great truck, weak engine, Corolla plastic interior. $63k CAD. Good grief.