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Not to be flippant, but the example used is Nissan, which has been circling the drain in the NA market for a couple years now. This wouldn't have surprised me i

by pkulak 7y ago

Not to be flippant, but the example used is Nissan, which has been circling the drain in the NA market for a couple years now. This wouldn't have surprised me if it happened 4 months ago. Now, are ships full of Toyotas and VWs also unable to unload?

jeffbee 7y ago
Nissan USA sales down by 1/3rd _before_ pandemic [1], car sales down 37% in Q1 2020, partially within pandemic [2]. Just brutal. 1: https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-103b1d052fdcd89776fbcfb58d00a83f-nissan-group-reports-december-2019-and-2019-calendar-year-us-sales https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-103b1d052f... 2: https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-11f3e4512ee877fdb9261f0e8200024f-nissan-group-reports-first-quarter-2020-us-sales https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-11f3e4512e...
- elsonrodriguez 7y ago
  This is a direct result of Nissan selling boring cars with transmissions made of glass and jagged rocks for years without any sign of changing course. Their niche was performance(even their budget cars had very good power compared to competitors), they should have left the boring appliances to Toyota and Honda.
  - gambiting 7y ago
    Yep, the only Nissan vehicle I'd recommend at the moment is the Mercedes X-class. (For those who don't understand the joke - thanks to the Renault-Nissan-Deimler partnership, all 3 companies share a lot of components, and the X-Class is literally a Nissan Navara with mercedes interior and badge)
  - ngngngng 7y ago
    Are they really that bad? I've been looking at getting a pathfinder for a while now. They're so cheap with just 10k miles on them.
    - PhantomGremlin 7y ago
      Early Nissan CVT had problems. Don't know about more recent. That's probably what the GP post was referring to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pathfinder#2014_model_year_update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pathfinder#2014_model_y... Looks like CVT introdueced in 2014 for the Pathfinder. So if you're buying newer than that, you're getting one. I'd advise you to do research on Nissan reliability before buying. Maybe something as simple as joining cr.org
    - elsonrodriguez 7y ago
      Ultimately most modern cars are fairly reliable, however apples to apples Nissan has the worst CVT transmission out of all the Japanese automakers. Even Subaru overcame their CVT transmission issues eventually. If Nissan has done anything to fix it we'll have to wait till the 2017+ cars get up in their miles to find out. That bad reputation is the reason used Nissans go so cheap these days.

by pkulak 7y ago

jeffbee 7y ago

Nissan USA sales down by 1/3rd _before_ pandemic [1], car sales down 37% in Q1 2020, partially within pandemic [2]. Just brutal. 1: https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-103b1d052fdcd89776fbcfb58d00a83f-nissan-group-reports-december-2019-and-2019-calendar-year-us-sales https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-103b1d052f... 2: https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-11f3e4512ee877fdb9261f0e8200024f-nissan-group-reports-first-quarter-2020-us-sales https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/release-11f3e4512e...

elsonrodriguez 7y ago
This is a direct result of Nissan selling boring cars with transmissions made of glass and jagged rocks for years without any sign of changing course. Their niche was performance(even their budget cars had very good power compared to competitors), they should have left the boring appliances to Toyota and Honda.
- gambiting 7y ago
  Yep, the only Nissan vehicle I'd recommend at the moment is the Mercedes X-class. (For those who don't understand the joke - thanks to the Renault-Nissan-Deimler partnership, all 3 companies share a lot of components, and the X-Class is literally a Nissan Navara with mercedes interior and badge)
- ngngngng 7y ago
  Are they really that bad? I've been looking at getting a pathfinder for a while now. They're so cheap with just 10k miles on them.
  - PhantomGremlin 7y ago
    Early Nissan CVT had problems. Don't know about more recent. That's probably what the GP post was referring to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pathfinder#2014_model_year_update https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Pathfinder#2014_model_y... Looks like CVT introdueced in 2014 for the Pathfinder. So if you're buying newer than that, you're getting one. I'd advise you to do research on Nissan reliability before buying. Maybe something as simple as joining cr.org
  - elsonrodriguez 7y ago
    Ultimately most modern cars are fairly reliable, however apples to apples Nissan has the worst CVT transmission out of all the Japanese automakers. Even Subaru overcame their CVT transmission issues eventually. If Nissan has done anything to fix it we'll have to wait till the 2017+ cars get up in their miles to find out. That bad reputation is the reason used Nissans go so cheap these days.