Lolol the lengths a CEO will go to protect their ego. (Rather than be a subsidiary to Honda because he wants to be an equal partner.)
To be fair, Honda isn’t exactly a great company today either, it’s been a good 20 years since they made a decent car.
Honda E is the closet thing they’ve got to something decent, but overbuilt to the max and therefore 3x more expensive than it should be.
The civic type R is widely regarded as one of the best cars you can get today.
Hope the money truck doesn’t have a CVT
I get this joke.
My quest feels this comment in it’s poorly built tranny
even the cars are woke! this is ridiculous!
Tranny…hahahahahahahaha
FU Asshole!
Do you laugh at the N word as well woke master?
How about the R word?
Keep making fun of marginalized people.
F right off with that bullshit.
Lordy, are you going to hate what we call a ford transit van in the UK…
holy troll bait batman.
Sure, lean into AI. Don’t worry about the really shitty transmission you’re still sticking in most of your cars, AI will fix it
The funds will be used to modernize internal systems at its headquarters and accelerate digital modernization and the rollout of AI-driven systems
If a signigicant portion of those funds are going to AI, they are doomed.
They already sell their vehicles to Altima drivers. I think doom was already on the menu.
Any company that puts two thermostats in a 4 cylinder engine gets a no from me.
They were doomed from the second they tied their company success to those terrible awful JATCO steel belt CVT’s.
And told everyone those and the normal ATs didn’t ever need their fluid changed.
They don’t because the car will be in the wreckers before the fluid needs changing.
Then they sell a new one. Isn’t that good for them?
All they need is a transmission not made of cheese.
According to the article, they’re selling it for ¥97 billion but will lease it back, so they will post a ¥73.9 billion gain from the sale. But in the first half of 2025, they posted a loss of ¥221.9 billion. So selling their HQ will offset about two months’ worth of losses.
Oof.
I’m driving a 26 year old Nissan and it still runs great.
Please don’t become another shitty car company. I thought I had an easy choice to make when I needed a new vehicle.
Once about 2002 hit, things went to shit for Nissan.
I dunno, I had a 2007 Nismo 350Z, #94, and that cr was sweet af. It may not have been representative of the brand as a whole.
That’s true for the 350’s, I’ll agree. Their v6 engines were pretty rock solid and those were designed and built by Nissan in Japan, along with the transmissions, and they weren’t CVT’s. A lot of their econo vehicles had Renault junk in them and their 4 cylinder engines didn’t hold up as well. Fun cars to drive, but not as fun or nimble as the s2000 I used to own and now dearly miss.
Sadly, it’s age is the reason you love that Nissan. Their cars have been steadily getting worse the last decade or two
But shareholder earnings have improved. And in the end, isn’t that what we all want? /s
Their ex-ceo who was responsible for all the cost cutting packed himself in a suitcase to escape the country, so maybe it didn’t work out after all
Same. I drive a 22-year old 350Z Roadster manual and I plan on keeping it forever. I beat on it cause it’s a sports car, yet it’s never needed anything more beyond basic maintenance. They just don’t make them this simple and reliable anymore.
Stop making shitty cars
Yeah Nissan has been shit for 20 years, not surprising that it’s catching up to them.
Depending on the vehicle, it’s been a lot longer than that.
Nissan hasn’t made a decent sedan/saloon for the western market in 33 years. Bluebird U12 was the last good model. U13 used the awful, terrible, no good KA24 motor, where Japan got an SR20DE(T)
Yeah, the Rogue is a joke! We have had two and they both were/are shit and have so many recalls and issues, it’s absurd! Fuck em!
The new Z is very reminiscent of the old Datsun 280. Or 240? Whatever, the cool one.
Isn’t it remimiscent of about all of them?
No one bought the new Z.
And those that did immediately wrapped them around trees because the handling is shit.
It’s a lovely car.
On the topic of car manufacturers, are there any new non-chinese (i.e. state funded) car-brands or is the market so consolidated and regulated that entry is pretty much impossible?
Hyundai, VW, Rivian, Polestar, Lucid, and GM still make electric cars, and generally good ones.
A used 2021 model 3 or y from Tesla will probably be th cheapest you can get without getting something like a used bolt, volt, or leaf.
there’s the electric car startups like rivian or whatever
