Priced from $45,100 including destination, the all-new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 High Country edition is $1,880 above the MSRP of the Ford F-150 King Ranch and $315 over the MSRP of the Ram Longhorn, but so what. The 2014 Silverado High Country comes in with the segment’s most powerful and most fuel efficient V8 engines along with a range-topping 9,800-pound trailering rating. It’s also available with either a 5’8″ or 6’6″ cargo box to go with the crew cab configuration.
Unique to the Silverado High Country are physical features including a chrome grille with horizontal chrome bars, body-color front and rear bumpers, and specific 20-inch chrome wheels with P275/55R20 all-season tires. Additional standard equipment includes halogen projector headlamps, along with chrome body side moldings, door handles and mirrors.
The interior of the 2014 Silverado High Country 1500 features a Western-themed saddle brown interior that’s exclusive to the trim package. There’s also heated and cooled perforated premium leather front bucket seats with High Country logos on the headrests are standard, along with Chevrolet MyLink connectivity with an 8-inch touch screen, Bose premium audio and front and rear park assist. Giddy up.
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Starting at $45k????How the heck do people afford these things? I bought a new silverado crew-cab 4×4 back in 07 for 30k. Sure it doesn’t have all the technology gadgets that these new ones do, but who cares. The prices have went up $15k over the last 7 years? That’s a 50% price increase. I bet my paychecks haven’t gone up 50% in the last 7 years. Its getting hard to justify this sort of investment for a truck. Just saying.
Still basically cheaper than the starting price of the Tahoe. You can still get a 5.3 crew cab 4×4 Silverado/Sierra for the same price you bought yours, but think of this truck as the Denali trim with a bowtie, and instead of modern style luxury in the Denali it’s more ranch style luxury
I think it’s partially a popularity thing too. If people weren’t so eager to be snapping them up left and right these prices might not be so “justifiable”.
Remember @ LEAST $12k of that is pure profit for GM
That’s kinda of saying how other people have the money to spend on the king ranch and platinum models or longhorns …… I guess if these people have the money to spend on a $600 leather jacket then that would probably be why
Also many guys would modify these high end luxury trucks to make them seemed more like a 4X4 luxo truck and you would see that for all these contractors or whatever…… same thing goes for the HDs
If the people who buy King Ranch or High Country call themselves contractors, then they are not contractors; they’re just under the table, tax-cheating crooks who have more interest in truck appearance than actually practicing a professional trade or craft.
15 years, and I’ve never seen a legit contractor use anything more expensive than a well-equiped mid-range extended cab with a 8′ box. 6′ boxes with crewcabs and the above Luxo pickups were always crooks.
For us, we’ve always preferred and used vans. They never get gaudy bling and leather crap from the factory that the pickups do, and we’ve never treated the vans as anything other than working vehicles.
Some people, however, are incapable of making the distracting between a working vehicle and a toy.
That’s a little BS, maybe if you mean a house/residential contractor. But a Site Super (or even a Foreman) for a general contractor building a stadium/arena, hospital, univeristy wing, etc, can sure as hell get away with that.
I will say that it isn’t those contractors that are modifying these trucks, as vic1212 suggested.
The former, but even the most accomplished foreman I’m met drove a loaded 2500 Crewcab…and it wasn’t jacked up.
I’m just saying it because that’s how the contractors here are at where I live. They all pretty much have either the top of the line trucks or one of those lifted top of the line trucks like the F150 Platinum or the King Ranch
You could be right but what I saw also is that those ones that does like the landscaping they have one of those….