Honda and Nissan make it official: Their merger talks are off
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Thank fuck, Nissan is ass.
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Why they want to sell them to Tesla? Ignoring that Nissan has nothing to offer to them (chademo? LOL), all Elmo is going to do is fire everyone and run the company to the ground. Any toddler can do that.
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Nissan has manufacturing plants in Tennessee and Mississippi that Tesla may want to get ahold of. In exchange Nissan gets enough cash to survive a while longer until they decide how to waste it.
(DAE remember the Leaf? Shit was dope. What the hell happened?)
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Not much point in assembly plants for ICE cars. Why pay for what's essentially a warehouse.
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Honestly thank God.
I was really worried about how this was only going to drag down Honda.
I used to love Nissan. They made several of my dream cars.
Unfortunately it's been quite some time since they made anything very good imo.
Currently have a reputation of meh reliability and meh driving experience.
They don't offer anything to entice someone away from Toyota or Honda.
I hope Nissan can come back but idk how they do that without a serious overhaul of their whole business from the ground up.
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Honda could have put honda engines in them and let Nissan just do their own styling.
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Unfortunate. Their EVs are a great value.
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You don't need to merge with Nissan to do that if you're Honda. Just buy out their design team. Much cheaper lol.
Edit: spelling
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I agree, I'm just saying that's what I would have seen them doing. See my other comment that the rumor was Japanese government pressured them into it.
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Honda needs decent trucks. Nissan can make a decent truck.
Nissan needs decent CVT transmissions. Honda can make decent CVTs.
As an outside observer, I figured just those 2 things would make it worth it.
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My first car was a Nissan too. It was an unreliable piece of shit. So based on that palpable experience, I'm glad this merger is off.
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My little brother said the same thing. I think you're both right. Clearly that wasn't enough to push the deal through though.
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Thank goodness.
Honda might have dropped quality a bit over the last decade, but they're nothing on the dodginess of Nissan.
I simply wouldn't buy a modern Nissan vehicle.
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Why?
Nissans haven't look good in ~20 years.
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If they were pressured into a merger by the Japanese government, what is the path forward? You could a) wind down Nissan or b) solve their major problem by putting Honda engines and transmissions in them. Which also brings their engine r&d cost to 0.
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日产 = rì chǎn
(originating from (the land of) the sun)
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Let Nissan do the styling? No, no, no. They already vomited out the Juke and Cube, we don't need more vehicular abominations out there on the roads...
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Yes but whats the gain to merge the 2 brands just for a modicum improvement?
bring them together when each can contribute something great, not just to limp along together
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What's wrong with the Cube?
