Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks

Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by sk0g on Thursday April 20, 2023 @07:13PM (#35647783)

That sounds extremely high for what it is. The second-hand car market has probably gone insane over there as well though

Here in Australia I bought a 6 year old Citroen DS3 for about EUR 5.5k, and it had around 60k km on it. Now I was looking at ~3 year old Golf GTI/R, and you can get them for about a 5% discount over buying a brand new one... Why.

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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by imp0cat on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:23AM (#35650051)

The old one was mk7 and the new one mk8? That would explain things.

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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by sk0g on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:08AM (#35651362)

This was at the end of 2021 or beginning of 2022, so the Mk8 wasn't out yet. Mk 8 models are also a bit more expensive, so the discrepancy would be a bit better in that case, I would imagine. Out of curiosity, are the Mk8s not too well received, or are Mk7s preferred?

I don't mind the change, but my current car works and I might as well hold out for an EV like Cupra Born or Peugeot e-208 personally.

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Re:Rural Americans are importing tiny Japanese pickup trucks by imp0cat on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:57AM (#35652439)

Mk8 is a great car IF you don't mind touch screens and touch controls for everything instead of traditional rotating knobs and buttons.

Unfortunately, a lot of people can't get over this change, so the Mk7 is considered a "peak GTI".

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