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Originally Posted by why?
everyone wants to be able to buy a used one with low miles for under $10k so they can spend all their money on mods.
Because they last forever, and their is a large commercial market. When businesses want to buy multiples individual price means less and price of repairs means more, so trucks are hardier, repairs cost less, and trucks are less likely to need repairs.
Also pickups are a step down from box trucks, which really do last forever. half a million miles on a box truck is nothing, and there are tons of them that are from the 80's and even earlier. So old isn't really a big concern or thought of the same way as normal people think of cars. Neither is needing the newest tech.
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Oh I get the value as commercial vehicles but for the last 20 years or so the vast majority of pickups have never been used for work a single day. They still manage to hold value though.
The well maintained work ones lasted forever but the ones that weren't fell apart faster than cars did. There were just so many of them that the survivors seem plentiful but they are really just the few that made it out of the many.