Ok...your right, when someone makes a product there are always customers for it.
Just like the Cadillac Cimarron.
I never said that; I said that both consumer and manufacturer enter into the equation.
Still, you could have picked a much better example than the Cimarron.
In 7 model years Cadillac sold 132,499 of the Cimarron.
In the last 7 model years Lincoln sold 72,980 Navigators.
The Navigator is just barely holding on as I mentioned earlier.
Still, I'm not sure what point you're trying to debate. You say buyers want fancy trucks, and fancy tractors, but if that were the case, they would still be selling Lincoln Blackwoods, and Mark LTs, but combined they didn't quite crack 40K sold. That doesn't sound like much of an argument for fancy trucks.
The OP thinks there's a tie between hobby tractors and pickup trucks. I don't see it, and I'm not seeing anything in this thread to back it up. Tractors getting "fancy" is nothing more than normal product development over time. They've reached a point where they're easy to use, and most anybody can manage to operate one. Cars used to be much harder to drive...manual idle speed, fuel mixture, and ignition timing mounted to the steering wheel, a manual choke on the dash, non-sychronized transmissions, manual steering, manual (even mechanical) brakes, etc, etc. You actually had to know something about the machine to operate one back then, and today they do everything but pour your coffee for you. There aren't nearly as many tractors in use as cars/trucks, their use isn't nearly as widespread, so that development is going to naturally lag behind something like the automobile which is virtually everywhere now.
The big thing is that OP's question is based upon an assumed premise (Cabela's business model) that everybody is guessing about. We don't know what their business model is based upon, and nobody I'm aware of actually has a good idea of what actual sales prices will be (since they're not charging MSRP).
Only time will tell how any of that pans out.
