Consumer Reports disagrees with your statement. Although someone else posted that JD Power has lately found no differences.
https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/to-get-the-most-reliable-new-car-it-pays-to-wait/
Here is a thread that discusses the eq differences. Base comes with all season tires - Big Bend comes with all terrain. You have to really want the few additional options Big Bend gives you (or the available additional cost options only available on BB) to pay the extra $5k...
Smart dealers will order bases for their lot. They are $5k cheaper and have everything that once upon a time made a vehicle “loaded” (cruise, power windows & locks, Apple Carplay, even keyless start), of course most will have automatic transmissions. They are not the stripped advertising loss...
Only similar because they are one step up from base on both. On the F-150, XLT adds a lot of good stuff at a fair price. I don’t think base BB’s will be on lots for the really poor value issues enumerated above. However, they will be on lots optioned out, as it’s the only way to get most of...
I imagine a number of the BB wheels/tires will be upgraded from new, creating a decent pool of new takeoffs at reasonable prices, at least I hope so. But the standard steelies have grown on me anyway (maybe paint black).
I’ve been wondering when this thread would pop up. I’ve never seen a package on any vehicle with content/price so out of whack.
I would really like to have the leather wrapped steering and aluminum wheels (Spooled’s statement above of heated seat inclusion in Big Bend is incorrect) but the...