4mo ago

Honda and Nissan make it official: Their merger talks are off

www.cbsnews.com

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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.
- 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.
  
  I can agree with this. Problem is Nissan wanted their CEO.and board members to retain control of the company.
  Obviously it would be a bad idea since I'm sure it's best to avoid Nissan to take down Honda with their bad decisions.
  Nissan picked their CEO and boardmembers over the entire Japanese and American Nissan workforce.
  
  My little brother said the same thing. I think you're both right. Clearly that wasn't enough to push the deal through though.
  
  Look what they did to my Pathfinder!
  Fuck Nissan.
  
  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
- Honda could have put honda engines in them and let Nissan just do their own styling.
  
  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...
  
  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
  
  Why?
  Nissans haven't look good in ~20 years.
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.
- I am out of the loop on this one. I always thought Nissan made solid vehicles. Even newer ones. Has there been some changes?
  
  Their transmissions have been shit for awhile
It seems like if Honda has any interest left in in Nissan, they'll just buy it out of bankruptcy when that occurs. The only other chance Nissan seems to have is if there is a non-automotive company that wants to become one.
- At the start of this I heard ideas that the Japanese government was pressuring them so that Nissan stock (held by many retirement funds) didn't go to 0.
Thank fuck, Nissan is ass.
- Nissans are the American cars of Japan.
Unfortunate. Their EVs are a great value.
- Have you owned one?
  They are unreliable and even Nissan itself cannot fix them
  
  They are very popular for carshare companies. I have rented a NV200 from a carshare for picking up a TV before and it was a nice experience and very inexpensive.
My first car was a Nissan. This is depressing.
- 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.
- I looked at getting them, ending up going with Hyundai instead.
  Very satisfied with my purchase.
  
  This was a 1993 Altima. I'm sure they are a very different beast now.
RIP GT-R Type-R
How do we pronounce Nissan in mandarin?
- 日产 = rì chǎn
  (originating from (the land of) the sun)
- 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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