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Originally Posted by Fat Charlie
... and "I saw an ad saying that a version of their truck gets good mileage" means a four wheel drive quad cab with the big engine is what's really going to get sold.
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Well, the dealers make more profit selling a $60k fully loaded, 400hp, 4x4, crew cab truck, than selling the $23k, base model, six cyl, 4x2, regular cab truck that actually gets the advertised fuel economy
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Originally Posted by vskid3
Did they study what the respondents actually bought/would buy? Going into a dealer saying fuel efficiency is a priority probably results in more 27MPG CUVs being sold (27 is higher than the 20 an SUV would get, right?) than economy cars.
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Dealer profits are also to blame for this... Why sell a customer a Corolla with $500 dealer profit instead of a RAV4 with $1500 dealer profit? The salesmen are usually pretty aggressive about going for the up sell... "You want a truck, you say? Well then, you're totally gonna want four wheel drive, and what's the fun of not being able to bring the family along?", or " I just think that CUV fits you better than that compact car does, and you deserve it, right?"