That price has to have some point of sale state incentives factored in. They start at $289/month by me in IL.

I think, Nissan dropped the ball with the Leaf, they were ahead of the game in electric cars and before the Model 3 got released, however they decided to keep the Leaf air cooled which made the battery in hot climates and cold climates degrade faster than if it was temperature managed/liquid cooled. Nissan is good at…

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…

My exact point. They had something good and let is slide into obscurity. When I got my 16 Q50 new I loved it. It is still my daily and has been a good car. I would have bought a new one if they were not the same exact car 6 years later.

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…

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?

Maxima, Q50, Q70 were not “good”. Maybe 10 years ago, but in today’s market they were decidedly also-rans, and in fact, were old and dated then. The global recession of 2008 basically sent Nissan into the showers.

Yeah but for a decade or so 150 people in C suite and above made out like bandits while those at the bottom kept the doors open doing the work of 2 or more employees while the brand was decimated. So hurray?

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

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.

Imagine having bad enough credit that most other brands won’t even touch you. Nissan: “allow me to introduce myself....”

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

I had not driven any Nissan product in probably a decade until I got saddled with a Rogue as a rental back in March. Brand new, less than 5K miles on it. There were so many rattles and squeaks and road noise, it was unbelievable. The interior materials may as well have come from a 20-year old Accord. The engine was…

They are caught in a doom spiral that is the inevitable result of cost cutting. Cost cutting leads to less R&D and cheaper feeling vehicles, which leads to needing to tap subprime and fleet sales to move metal (upmarket buyers don’t want dated cheap-feeling vehicles). The subprime and fleet sales keep the cash coming…

Leasing a new vehicle will most likely require you to carry comprehensive insurance on it, which will almost certainly exceed $199/mo. That has to be a weird feeling to be paying more for the insurance on a new car you don’t own than for the usage of the car itself.

Self inflicted wound. They let innovation and design language stagnate to the point they became irrelevant. They threw good vehicles in the bin (Maxima, Q50, Q70) because they did not want to invest in making them better. They dropped a whole segment of the market. This could have been avoided, but they assumed good…

“S&P Global cut Nissan’s credit rating to junk in March of last year.”

As frequently as Hyundais and Kias get stolen, have recalls or engine failures, I’m surprised they’re doing as well as they are too.

He can use Twitter, he’s just not making money off of it anymore despite posting about a vehicle he specifically bought to make money on Twitter. So yeah, two things I don’t care about combining into 1 thing that actually makes me kind of happy. Synergy I suppose.

Freeze Peach is only for Musk, the rest of us are his servants.