You know, you are on to something. I had not just one but TWO girlfriends during that time period with Datsuns. Both had B-210s their parents had bought for them in high school. Both had immense numbers of miles racked up, on simple, dead-nuts-reliable cars. And both girls had christened those beloved cars with a cute…

What an insane coincidence... this is literally on a FedEx truck en route to my house as I type:

Growing up, my friend’s mom had a red Datsun car but I don’t remember which model. Anyway, she loved the car so much that she named her dachshund “Datsun”. He was a cute little pup.

You do realize that WD does not build hardly anything is the US. The facilities here are mostly R&D and marketing.

Storage for devices that run personal/government/military computers is far more essential than manufacturing for niche vehicles during a pandemic where tons of people aren't driving.

It makes a little more sense that a hard disc drive manufacturer/data storage company might be considered essential while an electric (largely luxury) car manufacturer is not.

You are.

A LOT easier to build SSDs and hard drives than cars. Cleaner factories, more spacing for workers, a facility that REQUIRES a high level of cleanliness due to what they make.

Ehhhh, I don’t think this is true for anyone other than people who live in very dense urban centers. I live in a 1M-sized city, a “medium city” by today’s standards, and at one point I did crunch the numbers on using services rather than buying a car. I concluded I’d spend approximately 30x the cost of a car payment…

Where do you live?

I think they crammed all the faults into that one car. Sorry you got it. My LS is flawless. 

Sure would have been nice to have a coordinated federal response that the states could have looked to for guidance in all of this.

The constitution trumps all laws in the US. The whole point of it is to recognize God given inalienable rights that cannot be stopped by the government. If something is deemed unconstitutional the states can’t do it either.

We haven’t.

So... two very well-made, attractive, and reasonably affordable large-sized vehicles that were already considered to be a good deal at their original price points haven’t needed to reduce those prices?

Missed headline opportunity.

For those of you holding out hope that there will eventually be incentives for these, our hairdresser just bought one...in the middle of a global pandemic...when people literally cannot legally get their hair cut.

The Telluride actually saw increase in sales this year.

No steal prices here. From all the besotted schoolgirl hype the “article” spewed out, I was expecting 50% off.

No steal prices here. From all the besotted schoolgirl hype the “article” spewed out, I was expecting 50% off.