Who are they selling these trucks to?
Your neighbors, apparently. It’s surprising that there is only one 2012/2013 Colorado on the lot, and it’s used. I guess that Blackmon Chevrolet makes a living selling well equipped Silverados and Avalanches. Do you think that people from Birmingham or Memphis drive down for a good deal? It seems like a long way to go.
That VW would never sell in the US. It’s base price is about $31k USD for single cab and a whopping $36k+ USD for the extended cab. I imagine 4WD models are even more expensive. Check off a few option boxes, and you getting into 1 ton F-350/Silverado HD/RAM HD territory. Interesting vehicle, but for $40k USD (which is what I’m guessing a decently equipped 4WD Amarok would cost. I’ll take a fully loaded up F-150 instead for the same money.
Its a mess,LIke I said if its not availible ,you cant buy it-Kevin (choice is pretty much gone)
Blackmon’s market is within a 35 mile radius of his lot, jts. The dealers in Memphis and B’ham offer much better deals and draw customers away from here. Of course, high end pickups are status symbols in this area and many dentists, doctors and lawyers drive quad cab 1 ton dualy diesels to the office and local dealers cater to them. I assume they lease the trucks and swap them annually. But I don’t travel in those circles.
Probably some rich farmers with a couple thousand acres of cotton or field beans driving them, too. I used to go to Clarksdale for business. I flew to Memphis ad drove down. There were a lot a big farms on the way.
If you have spent any time in the Mississippi Delta you know just how poor most of the residents are, jts. Is there a new car dealership in Coahoma County? The “Delta Planters” have dinner at the Peabody and pick up a new F-350 on the way home. Those big farmers are quite comfortable with their cotton and their cotton allotment checks.
I am aware of how poor Mississippi is. I also got some inkling of how well-to-do many others were. My customer used to take us to his club for lunch. It was a large mansion that was used as a clubhouse by business owners and other well heeled residents. The boss made a lot and his workers made very little. That was the formula for the plant I visited. That was in the early 1980s and it sounds like nothing has changed.
Y’all need to keep on buying them thar little pickups. After you junk them out my friends here in Mexico can take them, fix them up, and drive them around the country for another twenty years. Heh, heh.
JT,like where I live,no middle class.Anyway I knew an adjustment was coming,we lost too many poor people in the nineties-Kevin