Pretty soon Nissan is going to be driving around in a Nissan.

Neighbor two doors down moved from the city to the suburbs and decided he needed a second car. He went to a leasing broker and said “I want the cheapest lease you can find me.” He ended up with a grey/black Altima. He doesn’t like it, his wife HATES it. Their other car is a newish Tucson so it’s not like the…

What if they made some alliance with other manufacturers that weren’t doing well, maybe Renault and Mitsubishi for example?

Ya know, if Ghosn got stuffed in a tuba case and smuggled to the US to head up Nissan USA, I bet he’d turn it around.

Totally, I think I’ve seen one? Even if it’s lipstick on a pig, it would behoove Nissan to get as many of them on the roads as possible.

Nissan used to be the Japanese brand you bought if you wanted reliability and couldn’t afford a Toyota. Then slowly but surely they degraded their product line, cut costs and shipped cars with shockingly high transmission failure rates. On top of that, they kept reskinning their sports car and mid sized truck to the…

It’s all been downhill for them when they went from Datsun to Nissan.

The wierd thing is I have yet to see the Z in the wild.  Not on the road, not at cars and coffee or car meets.  Is anyone buying them?

I rented a Sentra a few weeks ago on a trip, and it was nice enough car for that purpose. But I haven’t given it a single thought since I turned it in.

The Z is pretty mailed in at this point. Fresh lipstick on an ancient pig.

They can make okay looking cars but the mechanicals are mostly junk, I tried a Rogue and first impressions weren’t bad, it was comfortable, interior was okay, driving it wasn’t anything special, the little 1.5T motor actually felt decent. On the flipside the handling was iffy feeling and then the questions of the CVT…

Maybe this is Nissans opportunity to follow Mitsubishi's playbook. Focus on the Altima, Rogue for their mass market and pick between the Z and GTR for their performance market. Go lean. 

I mean, the Z is still on the same old platform and using an engine that has been in the Infiniti lineup since 2016.  It looks nice, it performs decent enough, but there is almost nothing new on that car aside from the exterior panels.

Then they can take advantage of one final cost cutting effort.... sharing a bankruptcy attorney.  

Completely mail it in across your entire lineup (including Infiniti) for years, and this is the result. Hardly surprising, tbh.

If they did what Hyundai did when they were thought of as junk cars it would go a LONG way.

Offer a lifetime warranty on the crappy JATCO CVT. Enthusiasts have long known about the failures, but even ordinary car buyers are becoming aware.

The only solution I see at this point, is for Nissan to merge with Stellantis.
That’s what companies are always telling me is the best solution for cOnSuMeRs. 

I’ve been wondering how Nissan is still in business for the last 20 years.

Dropped 99% you say?