The problem is, Scott, is that I'll never be able to have that vehicle in my lifetime. I would like to own and drive something like that, but it'll never be an Icon unless the stock market crashes and people lose their wealth there, the currency collapses, hearing aid batteries are no longer available, and fresh fruit all year around to support my vegan eating is no longer available, and energy for AC/heat at home become scarce during the hard part of the seasons. I don't want that to happen, so no, I have to pass on the Icon because I'll never be able to have one.
I'll look for something that is more reasonable. What I don't understand is these mentalities that have no clue as to the value of a dollar - I'd rather have several similar vehicles to drive for a total of $85k than ONE vehicle for that much. However, I do have experience from my Mom, who came from that walk of life. "You must simply have the best. Only the best will do, otherwise the quality is just not that good if it's cheaper. It's cheap." Mom found out in the last 20 years of her life that this was not always necessarily the case, that you could have a good product if you had reasonable wages, kept costs low and to a minimum, and paid good attention to detail and keep variation on the assembly line to a reasonable minimum. That is NOT the case with many high-end manufacturing companies. Granted, they may make some good products, but it seems that the cost of operations is way out of line.
But it would be nice if Icon offered different trim levels, from very affordable to "no-expenses-spared." I guess my complaint is that this is supposed to be a mechanically simple truck, much easier to manufacture compared to modern cars that have things that Icon would not have to deal with on vintage vehicles, like airbags, computers for every single thing, never mind 3-D curving of body parts like on today's vehicles. You could buy two completely restored Scout IIs for that money. I mean everything is properly sealed, painted, cured, proper IH-specific labels/decals are made and installed in the factory locations, etc. Complete frame-offs, in other words. You'd think Navistar went back into the light-line business as International Harvester.
