It's not $15k to buy - more like $7500. There's a lot of nice cars available for well under 10 grand. At this rate people will soon be giving them as gifts - but only to people that they don't like. They are the modern day version of the 6.3 and 6.9 - overbuilt and seemingly bargains - but they don't actually have a useful purpose given the cost of keeping them on the road.