Did you see that they were G35s and 37s? 5 of ‘em at a quarter million total?

I am thinking there must have been quite a few mods on these to get the value up.  I would have thought 5 of them would go for 100, tops.

“Doesn’t want a Nissan because of reliability issues”
Uh.
Okay.
A post-2008 D40 Frontier is pretty bulletproof. People still talking about the SMOD (solved by ‘09) are just proof that negativity lives forever.....

“What is the purpose of human endeavor?”
Well, we all march towards a common resting place, so, nothing?

That said, I have had 3 or 4 careers and several companies I worked for. They all had different skillsets. Was I owed any of them? No. Balling up my fists and not working until I got paid more would not have worked.…

I get you are all pro-Union here, but....
There is an argument against ‘paying them what they are worth’ when a robot can do it cheaper in the long run. Have the longshoremen and stevedores (I think I got that right) made themselves 61.5% more productive? Maybe 30.75% more productive and 30.75% safer?
If not, then why…

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“ricers”..... I don’t know if this is a case of an old man with a broken giveashitometer, but I recall a time when that was ‘ugh, SO offensive.’
Now, I am somehow okay with it. I don’t know if it has surpassed its initial meaning to the point that it has lost its effectiveness, or if I have early-onset conservative…

Manufacturing would return, to a degree, but it would take many presidents.
American-made goods would be tariffed in return around the world, reducing the quantity demanded for those items.
In order to be profitable, domestic prices have to go up.

Even with the steel tariff in 2017(?), a few more steelworkers got jobs…

This feels like a win for Nissan.
I appreciate that the CVT wasn’t bashed just because it existed. It is an easy punch, but to read “it works fine and is appropriate here” is quite refreshing.

The stuff that makes the person think they can charge more is not on my list of wants.
This thing has the contact patch of a great eastern slug, so I would turn it into an offroader (properly), wherein the paint needn’t matter.
3k and beat up?  Sure.  Maybe 3.5k because manual and low gear.  Almost 8 is old pickup…

It is a lease.  I may as well be paying for a garage decoration.

Or, hey, maybe the mileage driven and its cost were the source of a fairly large argument with my wife, which I apparently lost, hence the rant? I mean, I identified it as a rant, didn’t I?
But, ffs, you win. You are the smartest car person and money person on the internet. You know everyone’s business, and I had no…

Well, now that you are invested....
The vehicle is a lease. I know what we have done to date and I know how much we drive it. I also know when we turn it in. So, I have a VERY accurate rate for cost to date. I also have sampled about a third of the time that we will have it, so, ceteris paribus, I have at least 95%…

Oh, shit, son! I had no idea I was paying for a solar install; I’d better look into that! The good news is that I will be dead by the time they break down enough for me to care, so I didn’t put that into my calculations. Whew! Dodged a big skewing of data there!

Why did you jump onto a person’s post that just needed to…

My wife has 2,981 miles on her BMW eDrive 40i (or whatever the hell it is called). After down payment, monthly payments, and insurance increase, she is paying $4.28 to drive a mile. I have great solar, so fuel is free.
Still, $4.28/mile..... Since December.
I hate this thing. It is not bankrupting us, as we do okay, but…

SMOD was only on 2nd gen autos. This is a 1st gen manual.

It is a pinch too high for me for any ‘ol Xterra, but, for me, it ticks all my wishlist boxes:
Green
Manual
Supercharged (which gives it enough power, but dismal MPG, much like all Nissan trucks/SUVs)

The brush guard may have to go, as it just looks like a damage…

Oh, I am familiar. I used to love going through the issue with the last 8 model years and their areas of reliability.
In this context, without knowing the methodology, Consumer Reports becomes not much better than ‘they.’

I would LOVE a slide that says what CR considers when it looks at ‘best’ vehicles for under 20k. As everyone has different wants in a car, something that is a glaring error in CR’s eyes may be an acceptable trade-off in someone elses’s.

Case: Toyota ‘bulletproof’ reliability. It is reliable because it doesn’t actually d…

My state has oversight. I would have to look for the exact number, but it is a hard value from the road surface to the bottom of the bumper. It does say something like ‘structural bumper’ or ‘force-reducing section of the bumper’, not the plastic fascia.
So, something like 34.5 inches? from the road; it doesn’t have to…

Second on the Pinz. The first-gen haven’t been made in forever and, yet, are still on my bucket list.
Portal axles, three locking diffs, and a top speed of ‘Honeybee on lilac’. The Chevy Iron Duke is an almost direct drop-in upgrade to make it run until the universal end of racism (or the axles need sealing, but…

“Just needs”
Came here to say and/or reinforce this.
It is a lie.
A filthy lie.
I would be more excited about a picture of a rusted roller than a pristine car that ‘just needs’ plug #6 replaced (or any electrical part).  One is honest and the other is not.

Facebook marketplace is proof that hope springs eternal.