Complaining about the lack of a volume knob is all the credentials I need to hear. Welcome!

Welcome! Be Strong and Edit well, for the Pedantry Force IS a thing here...

I think you’re right on this. Last summer the aged in-laws sold their house for senior living. The house sold in <12 hours. I remarked to the agent (who we’ve known for a couple of decades now) about “enjoying the good times” I guess for hot sales. She remarked back that while in her opinion the prices will cool off,…

You have a funny definition of “right.” You must make Jesus proud.

They don’t want a lot of the crap that manufacturers are putting on new cars. So they are going for the devil they know: older cars they understand and trust.

LOL a Frontier appreciating

How many cars on the road are new? 

what are the way more effective ways.

How, exactly, do automakers make buyers buy cars that they don’t want?

Heh...If you can’t explain it, you don’t understand it.

Great, let’s do that. By increasing the difficulty of the driving test so that the least-skilled 33% of drivers fail.

Probably disproportionately so.  Rich people buy used cars.

96-month payments.

Who else is buying Nissan Versas and Kia Rios?

Low income workers normally buy new cars?

It’s not. It is fashion.  It says so right on the side. 

Well, #1 to #3 are quite true. 

And they do it without grossly inflating the cost of the vehicle in the end. Your move, every other automaker in the world.

Stern gave me good advice 20 years ago when I wanted to upgrade my halogen headlights to HID and he knew what he was talking about then. Here I am now with 25 years experience engineering, 20 of it in the automotive biz and 5 in the automotive headlight biz and he’s still right.

I first encountered Daniel Stern online in the early-mid 1990s on usenet in either rec.autos.driving or rec.autos.tech or one of the more specialized groups in the rec.autos hierarchy. This was before the world wide web reached any sort of significant usage level. At that time if memory serves me correctly he was…