balthazar

Incentives for a really old model don't general work well, esp if those incentives are only nibbling at the recent huge price increase. Model Y should do well volume-wise, but I'm under no impression that it'll turn a profit. Then again; it may well kill off the Model X, saving some monies eventually. The pickup & semi are too vaporous to determine if they bring anything to the table / competitive with the established brands. Early press release dribbles you might as well throw right out the window. If the small Model X is $110,000, the more complex/capable pickup is likely to be $125,000, and the semi a few hundred thousand more than it's competition. This is rarified, 'luxury' pricing well above any such existing models in those segments. A poor business plan moving forward. If Rivian or Atlis ever get off the ground with production & nailed-down pricing, they may undercut the eventual Tesla pickup by 10s of thousands. There's no rosy glow on the horizon for Tesla IMO - their salad days may well be behind them.

Two huge huge problems: Tesla raised the ante for an S or X by around $18,000, and the models are now quite dated; S is going to be NINE years old next month.

That said- the current Colorado is the same size as a Silverado from the ‘90s- its not like its anywhere near S-10 size anymore. This adage is commonly repeated, yet I question if theres really that many people who couldnt handle a Silverado other than ‘don’t want to’ (as opposed to ‘inability’).

[TL;DW] did the audi conversion vid state how much the whole project cost?

^ I just had that subliminal thought- saw a Telly yesterday and was like 'that's a big 'meh''; when the pics of it first came out I thought kia was punching well above it's pay grade. I agree it's going to age really fast.

I lived in Detroit in '84-85, it was a hellhole then. Tigers won the World Series and they rioted, flipped & ignited cars. GM was still in the General Motors Building then- an ornate, swanky place, pretty cool. Glad to hear the city has seen a degree of revival since.

Everything is generic within its decade if you can only see 10% of it. :)

Spent about 10 minutes trying to place this one, but no dice so far. Note the 'bullet' hood ornament, and the way the grille is rounded & edged with chrome at the very bottom is unusual. I see side grille peeking out, too. It's '38-39ish, Buick is the closest but can't' match these details with the bumper. Nash, Hudson, Stude, FoMoCo, ChryCo eliminated. No other GM Divisions are quite there either.

circa '80 Trans Am, black, t-toppin it down local road. - - - - - Someone here mentioned wanting to get an old fridge. How about an NOS 1941 Coldspot?

What an awesome arsenal ~ Bunker Buster ~ 10 years ago, a Daytona coupe sold for $7.25 million. 6 built- all survive today.

You wanna talk the talk, maybe you should walk the walk.

“Crushingly” ?

Dealers advertising to encourage sales? Whats the world coming to?

I believe '69 & up had taller hoods at the leading edge. With this one's lower hood, marker light & the fender badging, it appears to be a '68. Not 100% tho- and this one has obviously had customization work, so swappage could have taken place.

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. - - - - -

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) ~

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 ~

^ 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.

'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!!"

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.

Current gen LaCrosse sure is a swanky, sharp-looking car.

My opinion : month-to-month is a puzzling, meaningless figure. Much too brief a snapshot and frankly, too much time has passed to keep the comparison valid. YTD compares (here) 7 months instead of 1; now we have some significant time involved. Moves of 2 or 3% are also meaningless by month. Sure it translates to dollars, but you’re never going to have unending ascension in business, and 2 or 3 or 4% is just a natural flux in commerce. Now, you have a model that drops 22% over 7 months this year vs. 7 months last year, and you better ‘be putting people on that’.