More dead sedans: Goodbye Nissan Altima and Versa

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Once you let other countries leadership have control over your brands - it typically doesn’t work out well. Nissan is not main focus of the Renault ownership group. They should have remained independent or partnered with Honda / Toyota like Subaru did.

The same demise has happened to Dodge/Chrysler with the takeover of Stellantis. No US executives left to fight for the American brands. The new products like the Hornet are just a rebadge of European model. No investments into new V8 etc.

I think ultimately most of these brands will cease to exist and Chinese market brands will be taking over in a significant way over next decade.

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Yea Infiniti started losing momentum big time after 2017. Sales are awful. Johan de Nysschen changing the lineup from the familiar G/M/FX etc to Q whatever was an idiotic move. He was a complete loser. He failed at Cadillac too.

And Ghosn was ousted in 2018. It's been 6 years after his departure and Nissan/Infiniti still have absolutely nothing to show for it. The embarrassment of still using the same 20-year-old platforms in their allegedly new vehicles...

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Originally Posted by RNM GS3

Once you let other countries leadership have control over your brands - it typically doesn’t work out well. Nissan is not main focus of the Renault ownership group. They should have remained independent or partnered with Honda / Toyota like Subaru did.

The same demise has happened to Dodge/Chrysler with the takeover of Stellantis. No US executives left to fight for the American brands. The new products like the Hornet are just a rebadge of European model. No investments into new V8 etc.

I think ultimately most of these brands will cease to exist and Chinese market brands will be taking over in a significant way over next decade.

great post, i especially agree with the last part.