Also Thursday, Nissan reported a 221.9 billion yen ($1.4 billion) loss for the fiscal first half. It recorded a 19.2 billion yen profit during the same period a year ago.
What the fuck happened to their sales ? Did China kill it ?
They have completely failed to keep up with their competitors. They were slow to adopt new technology, when they did it was unreliable. When you’re shopping for a car, if you compare a Nissan rogue to a Honda CRV, the Honda just seems a little nicer. The technology works better, and it’s the same goddamn price.
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.
Now I’m no Honda fangirl. The 1.5L is their least reliable engine in a while and they don’t offer a manual Civic below the Si, which is very underpowered and underspecced for its price. They also have removed Civic features to put them in the Integra instead of just making the Integra better. I also think the Integra is overpriced and Acura doesn’t make much else that appeals to me. The new Accord is a borefest and they killed the Accord manual by saying there’s no consumer demand when they decide how many get produced and they sold every one that was produced. The Honda E I agree should’ve been way cheaper and simpler.
After all of that still, to say Honda hasn’t made a good car in 20 years is completely bizarre and incorrect. I would so much rather be in a Civic or CR-V today than a Corolla or RAV4. Personally, I avoided both and got a VW GLI but that’s besides the point.
Loved the Honda E design, reminded me so much of the Golf Mk I. If they would have made budget version like Fiat does with the 500e, they could have had a chance, but I thibk the Honda E was too early and too expensive to reach that goal. I’m sad they stopped selling it completely.
The civic type R is widely regarded as one of the best cars you can get today.
You don’t even have to go up to the Type R. Every car review of the Civic Hybrid is basically “we hate this car because it’s so perfect.” It’s the default “I’m looking for a good car.”
The Pilot is also one of the best in its class amongst family 3 rows.
The fit is discontinued but it’s beloved by its owners
At starting MSPR of ~48K I’m sure there are good contenders.
Yeah but to say they haven’t made a good car in 20 years is absurd. I’m an MX-5 guy myself.
Correct. Still very reliable and suffering less of the overall car industry issues.
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.
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.
A bunch of manufacturers said the same of their own transmissions, and they were all scammers for it, too.
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?
Any company that puts two thermostats in a 4 cylinder engine gets a no from me.
All they need is a transmission not made of cheese.
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.
holy troll bait batman.
Lordy, are you going to hate what we call a ford transit van in the UK…
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
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.
Theyve been shit for a good while
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
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.
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
Well I am fine with my nissan leaf.
It was cheap (bought used) and does what it should do.
Drive around and stuff.
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.
What on earth are you talking about? It’s on the 370Z chassis, one of the most loved enthusiast platforms out there.
Anyone wrapping it around a tree has a case of driver error to blame. Having owned every generation of Z since the 300ZX, I found it to handle excellently.
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
