To clarify, because I don’t see this clearly stated in the article: The Altima still rocks the same old, warmed over version of the 2.5L 4-cylinder that they’ve been selling this with for ages and, to replace the V6, has the variable compression turbo, correct?

Nissan doesn’t have a great rep for dealing with new…

Great, THAT is a vehicle that seriously interests me.

Source for the turbo?

Your loss, because of the rest of what he says is correct.

A 3-year-old Camry absolutely does not do the same thing. A Sienna, sure. Not a Camry.

Ugh, why are you even here.

Except that they can’t offer any of the features that consumers demand through buttons and knobs.

I presume you want none of the features it offers then.

Mazda: Please please please put this in the CX-5. Or make this with a Mazda 6 wagon. I have a feeling one is easier/more profitable than the other.

Aww, this is a loss. I loved the size of the Smart, hated driving the previous version, but quite enjoy the new ones (vast improvements on almost all fronts). This is a loss.

Disagree. I live in Montreal and there’s almost *always* a spot that the Smart can fit into that no one else could. It doesn’t take up normal-sized spots, it just fills in the unsuitable spots (90% of the time). For those of us living in dense cities, that’s half the appeal of the program.

Your own reply on this is proof that your original comment, implying that one should just buy a GX instead of the RX, is a useless one.

Yeah, they (correctly) highlighted the fact that Toyota, for some reason, deemed it necessary to making the suspension harder in search of “sportier handling,” making a vehicle that’s dedicated to comfort uncomfortable. Toyota may have refreshed it and fixed it since then, as they did with the RAV4 following precisely…

“I had no idea CR issued ratings on cars they’ve never tested/driven before. Honestly, that sounds like an exceedingly stupid thing to do.”

Not the recent one they don’t, no.

Thank you for actually talking about the service trade surplus.

The response to that is that Boeing is, itself, also a highly subsidized company (guaranteed military contracts, millions and millions in tax breaks, etc.). The other side to this is that the CS, in the form purchased by Delta, is not a competitor to anything Boeing offers and therefore that the entire argument here…

My reaction to every rental Camry I’ve had.

A380s are known as hard landers, so your experience was pretty typical. I agree though, neat planes. AF needs to update their interiors badly though.

Now you’re changing tacks from your original statement. Your original question was “why does this exist?” and now your question is “how well can it sell?” Very different. We don’t know if it will sell well, but this seems to be a category right now where, judging by Chrysler’s products, you can basically put four…