Viral dealership video shows monthly car payments are out of control.
Series III, which totals $1386 per month. As bad as this one sounds, it is important to remember that the range-topping Grand Wagoneer carries a starting price of $109,995. Things don’t get any better as we move to the truck owners, as one employee currently pays $1445 a month for the pleasure of driving a 2022 GMC Sierra 2500 Denali, which carried a base price of just over $72,000 when new.
. The Hellcat was actually one of the cheaper cars on this list when it was new, carrying an original MSRP of $75,820. The employee appears to dismiss the lower payments we’ve heard prior for not being quite as ridiculous as his. Of course we’d also like to have a 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 at our disposal if we were spending that sort of money every month.Certainly, it's not hard to single out this dealership in particular, but it's not entirely justified.
That said, touting these sorts of monthly payments feels odd coming from a dealership’s own social media page. We shouldn’t be normalizing the pain people have been feeling as a result of the current inventory issue plaguing the United States, even if automakers aren’t helping curb the pricing surge. At the end of the day, dealers make commissions through the finance reserve attached to your purchase agreement.
Born and raised in Metro Detroit, associate editor Lucas Bell has spent his entire life surrounded by the automotive industry.
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