A Two-Decade Old Ford Excursion Just Sold for the Price of a New Luxury SUV
A 2000 Ford Excursion sold for the price of a new luxury SUV. What makes this one so special?
Written by Andrew Kidd
Reviewed by Kathleen Flear
What the heart wants, the wallet will provide. That’s definitely the case for the buyer of a 2000
Ford
Excursion who spent well over what you’d expect for a 22-year-old SUV.A seller listed the Super Duty-based
Excursion
on auction site Bring A Trailer
for no reserve—meaning it would sell no matter the final price. And sell it did, going for $67,500 in late March.The Ford Excursion is a relic of the new millennium
To be fair, it looks like it’s in pretty great shape for a vehicle older than most college students with 101,000 miles on the odometer.
The listing for the metallic green 4WD SUV describes its mostly single-owner life, being first registered in Michigan before the seller acquired it earlier this year. It also helps that it has an accident-free record and a clean Georgia title.
Great news for the average used car buyer, but who would spend that much for a used SUV that
Time Magazine
listed as one of the 50 worst cars of all time? Value is relative when it comes to cars
Scarcity has a habit of making folks pay much more than what they normally would if an item was still readily available.
Ford didn’t make too many of the
truck-based
Excursion; in its best year, the automaker sold only 50,000 of the massive SUV—dubbed the Ford “Valdez” by the Sierra Club—in the U.S. compared with nearly half a million Explorers in the same period.Even fewer came equipped with the highly coveted 235-horsepower 7.3-liter Power Stroke diesel V8, which is what this particular example boasts.
The 2000 Ford Excursion retailed with a starting MSRP of $34,135 in 1999, which would be just over $58,000 in 2022 when adjusted for inflation. That means whoever bought this used Excursion paid nearly $10,000 more than its inflation-adjusted retail price when it was new.
For $67,500, you could almost score a brand-new base model Ford Expedition and you could definitely afford one of many brand-new mid-trim luxury SUVs out there, too.
If that’s not devotion, it’s probably desperation. The used car market is a mess right now—used vehicle prices are up around
40% over 2021
—and definitely plays into the pricing of this pristine-looking truck-based SUV. The Excursion is also a discontinued model, which can demand a premium.
It doesn’t help that new vehicles are also having trouble finding their way onto dealer lots. Global supply chain issues and computer chip shortages are taking a toll on new car inventories. When high-demand vehicles do make it onto dealer lots, they can be subject to
ridiculous markups
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