it’s wholly possible that they had 1-2 million reservations, and people started cancelling them as soon as they saw what a donkey of a car it is. then musk turning into a raging nazi took care of whatever other reservations were left and not delivered on.

Point 1 is challenging to prove.

My immediate thought when looking at a picture with trump supporters is 1) They are paid to be there. 2) They are completely and utterly STUPID.

Man, instead of jumped the shark, people will start saying Showed The Robovan.

I dunno...maybe a car that hasn’t hit everything in SD?

Remember when Obama was inaugurated? Ram had already been building the truck currently known as the Ram 1500 Classic for several months before he was even sworn in. It isn’t just old — it’s old old.

This car could be in mint condition and it would still be a shit box. This was not a good period for quality at Chrysler - the interiors were garbage and I simply wouldn’t trust the powertrain. With this car, there are three different shades of red in that one front end picture, and the rear bumper looks off too. This…

Edmunds’ long term Dodge Dart was some of the best low key comedy car journalism has ever produced. Literally every update was some component failing, the high point definitely being when the inner layer of the windshield spontaneously shattered. They took it to the Dealership who told them that they obviously broke…

First Gen Kia Soul.

2nd Gear: I guess that $60K F-150 will be $180K, and you bet the price of domestically produced automobiles will increase. I recall when Japan put voluntary import limits on their cars in the Eighties, the first thing Detroit did was raise the prices on their shit cars.

100% agree. All the speculative explanations are unnecessary in the face of the facts: Nissan’s cars suck. They’ve been peddling crap for so long they clearly have no idea how not to. Old dated-tech crap at that. Consequences. Let’s not even get into Infiniti. Lipstick on a pig is a complement. Q, my ass.

The reviewers let out a collective “Yawn” and it underperformed it’s nominal 400 HP so there was that.

I get that but the Bronco and Tacoma have  an excited buyer base, from a purely financial perspective it probably won’t do Nissan much good to invest in a manual trans for 20-30% take rate on very specific cars. 

28% of the first year Broncos were manuals. Tacoma still sells a ton on manuals. Nissan was actually selling quite a few stick shift Versas as well.

Have we confirmed that the new Z is an actual thing and not some AI-created hallucination that just exists on the internet? Because I’ve never actually seen one in the real world.

I had a 2002 Nissan Altima. The manual transmission went out at about 30K miles, and it took three months to get replacement parts from Japan.

The new Z may be little more than a re-skin of the 370, but it’s a cool re-skin, and at $10,000 less than a Supra, it should have been a hit. Problem is, once greedy dealers got to work on the markups, it was no longer cheaper than a Supra, and at that point there was literally zero reason to buy one. Dealers are…

Exactly...if Nissan and their dealers didn’t use that buyer pool to peddle mediocre products with predatory practicecs they could carve out a market.

I don’t think that there’s anything inherently wrong with the concept of offering some inexpensive cars and extending credit to people who might not otherwise be able to purchase a car. In fact, I think it’s a great idea.

I think we are overthinking this. It’s so obvious a caveman can see it. “Nissan no sell many car, because Nissan car no good.” They got comfy making crappy cars that their dealers would then push to sell to anyone with a pulse that could qualify for a 14% apr 86 month loan. This has been their MO for decades, there is…