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why for the love of God do some dealers put HUGE WHITE stickers on a new car????? WTF!!!!

One more point on the 'Lego shed' - how do you run wiring? - - - - -

I dunno; I think they could've gotten one more ladder up there ~ Plus this clean '70s F-100 / 150 a few doors down from a job I'm doing ~

Surface mount boxed & wire mold? Welcome to 1920. - - - - - - - - - - Especially with regards to looking at vintage photos of GM building cars, I think folk get confused sometimes on Fisher Body vs. GM Assembly. Separate Divisions, in separate plants, but connected (usually; in some instances bodies were trucked to the Assembly plants) ~

I am a huge fan of trains and love the Erie paint scheme. Huge plus one from me. Surface mount with wire mould....the rest is crappy....why do the electric right? As much as i love traditional joinery, the future is probably some sort of composite wood and metal fasten construction for most furniture. people are transient and don't want fine furniture for the most pat any more.

^ They're not building houses that way, unless for themselves. Ever see parallel strand lumber (PSL)? Far greater strength than sawn lumber, built with directional grain, glued & compressed under high pressure. They are made in lengths up to 60 feet.

Got home and realized I picked up the wrong duct tape for a home project. Went back to Lowe's customer service desk. Lady said - "Is there anything wrong with it, or just no need for duct tape?" I said "Apparently, I picked up the wrong tape for the bondage party tonight..." Her eyes got big, she said "ohhh....." and she zoned out as she completed the return transaction. I let her stew for several seconds, feeling good about my devilish joke, then - "I was just kidding about that" She looked me over and replied, crushingly - "I figured..."

I don't have an issue with Pex; no corrosion, a fraction of the seams, far quicker & cheaper to run. I think it's well proven at this point. - - - - -

A single mom I know has a Sentra, it was a bigger compact for her and her kids and that was what she could get a good payment on. We rip Nissan for being fleets and cheaper cars but they do move a lot of units that way they otherwise would not. It's quite arguable to me whether that actually tanks their value. I think their vehicles sell new based on what they offer vs the competition. People still love the Rogue, they like the Altimas and stuff, and Nissan although not keeping them bleeding edge they still keep the cars current (unlike say Mitsubishi). You can still look at Hondas and Toyotas and go look at a Nissan and it seems just as current and capable. All of the rental and lease returns serve the secondary '3 year old used' market pretty well. Face it, if you can't foot for a 23,000 new Altima then a 3 year old Altima for 14-15 grand is not a bad option. Nissan would not survive in the US trying to upscale their cars. Look at what happened when VW tried to do that. Now, VW has become purveyors of cheap rides and lease whores with the best of them. Look at Mazda, they are on the path to becoming irrelevant in the market because they think their prior enthusiast cred means they can charge more money for something like an unexciting new MAzda3 which got beat by the 2020 Corolla in a Motor Trend test lately. MAzda fanbois whine about 'they are taking away the manuals' and no one buys manuals anymore. Mazdas cred was by also being a good value for the money and Mazda is forgetting that. Nissan would be the same thing. Apart from the MAxima which is a dying segment, no one wants to pay a lot more for a Nissan compared to a Honda, Toyota...etc. Honda still benefits from the Acura brand as being the purveyor of tarted up Hondas which is why Honda can stay its own path and keep their prices good all around. The massive auto MSRP race to the top is going to crash soon, and cars like the Sentra, Altima etc will still need to be in the market to fill the void.

Front side markers filled in, can't tell if that is a '67-68 style hood or '69-72 style. Subtle differences. Without seeing the grille hard to nail down.

Soooo... yeah Drew... maybe quarterly is best.

Ah but all those used rogues for sale on the enterprise lots across this great land Actually an office I worked at just a short few years ago had hired a tech school grad and he bought a new Versa with his first job. It was almost his only new option and he was driving to work 40+ miles one way a day. And wasn’t getting paid a lot. The versa was an extremely smart move for him. New car warranty. Great mpg. And establish good credit with a loan. I do think versa is a good choice for that purpose.

'Barn jointery' goes back hundreds & hundreds of years; not necessarily Japanese in origin. Great technique, but time consuming; not practical for house construction. Also- typical house lumber isn't chunky enough to support that type of joints… unless one wanted to build the frame out of 4x6s. Reminds me of 3-D printing of houses; breezy, over-simplified videos that really only address building walls, then jumping in the air and yelling 'YAY!! WE BUILDED A HOUSE!!"

Versa has a nicer interior than Kicks. Versa is cheaper than Rogue by a significant amount

Pick a thread, any thread. *surreal arguing with somebody* *dfelt forcing EVs"

Thats not a ‘house’, its a garden shed. Plus, video clearly showed metal fasteners for the wall framing. This a terribly energy inefficient methodology of construction. Firstly, nails & screws are cheap & strong. 2nd: wood shrinks, swells, weathers & splits; expect the walls, sans any fasteners, to become loose and even rattly in 5 years. This shed is built with 1-foot pieces: it has a million more unsealed seams that conventional. Why not show this built with 8 sections at the very least? The touted 'quick growth' pine is the least strong, and most defect prone type of growth/wood- slow growth fir is much stronger. And with the 'structure' of the building exposed- the decay attacks that segment immediately, rather than the siding or vapor barrier (immune and there for a reason). Fire rating mention is also woefully absent on their website. Fast growth pine packed with sawdust would be a flammable nightmare. Hard pass.

It's really hard to gauge what the market is doing when the domestics only report every 3 months. I'm tempted to move our sales reporting to quarterly also.

@A Horse With No Name and any other person who loves wood work. Build a home with zero nails or screws. 100% wood home built like Lego bricks. https://www.brikawood-ecologie.fr/home/ I believe this is called dove tail wood connections. Please correct as I am not 100% sure on the connection type.

“Crushingly” ?

Should be interesting to see the style and I wonder since they have also said they would be doing ice/hybrid/ev, what the powertrain lineup will be.