This morning's updated gas prices in Hamden, CT 06514 (Greater New Haven)  $2.97 Regular (Cash) @ Gulf  $3.03 Regular (Cash) @ Citgo (Decreased $0.06 from $3.09)  

It won't stay there long term. This stock hardly moves it bounces between $8 and $13 all the time.

You might have left some money on the table,,,,,   HRG

The second idea

Its werid-I've mostly owned compacts and a couple subcompacts-I hated how "big" my SHO was-it was like 201 inches long. I think I'd hate having a pickup since the vast majority of them are well over 200 inches long.   The sweet spot for me is a vehicle between 170-190 inches long. 

When we went shopping for a replacement vehicle for the girlfriend last fall, she confidently stated, I want something smaller (she had a 2018 Ford Escape at the time and in the interim, had retired from her 30+ year job with the long commute) I explained to her, that the Escape is as "small" as it gets in the Ford lineup and if she persisted, we would have to look at other brands. "Fine with me!" she says and off we go a-shoppin' for "something else"...she looks and looks and then settles on a Mazda CX-30....when we took it for a test-ride, her statement of "Wow, this thing is small..." kinda unnerved me (lol) but after the test drive, we went to her favorite salesman at her favorite Ford store, test drove and then bought Escape #6, a 2024 ST-Line model and everything is right in the world....that is until in 6-8 years from now when she wants another car and finds out that Ford has not replaced Escape in the line yet....I hope I am wrong about that part....

From Automotive News:   Complete article: https://www.autonews.com/ford/an-ford-q3-earnings-1023/

Thanks, just saw this snippet in linked article   https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/americas-top-selling-vehicle-faces-production-hit-after-fire-supplier-facility-analyst-says     Sounds like there will be some supplies of aluminum coming from other locations but yeah, pretty sure that Ford will have to work down it’s +200k F Series inventory to keep as many customers as possible…..lest they go shopping at GM or Stellantis…

I saw it straight away but was concerned about being called a Spelling Nazi in today's political climate, so I let it go. 

I think another benefit of the Kanban concept was you minimized inventory costs..from the carrying cost of maintaining a large inventory, to in the long term,  the cost of the  additional warehouse space.