I do worry about Nissan’s future when they seem to be about this close to operating with zero profits.
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altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
More Nissan for me!
But yeah, Nissan seems to be making some nicer cars lately. Hopefully they can shake off the bad two gained by Goghn’s cost cutting and bad cuts. Plus, Nissan actually makes electric cars, something Honda, I don’t believe, hasn’t even attempted yet. They had a sweet deal with GM, and they dropped the partnership. Nissans got the Leaf and Aria, and there’s rumors of them using Mitsubishi’s hybrid system in the upcoming years.
RxBrad@infosec.pub 1 week ago
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Honda has made both the “e” in 2020 and “e:Ny1” in 2023, both seem like decent BEVs.
Peffse@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They were one of the few, if only, remaining manufacturers in the US that produced a subcompact car. Yet they are getting rid of both the Versa and Altima.
I hate how everybody bloated up their fleets with crossovers and SUVs…
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
While I generally think regulations are a net positive, the cafe regulations treating SUVs as trucks for minimum mileage is the main reason for the ever increasing vehicle size and shift to massive SUVs dominating the roads.
They should be less punishing for smaller cars and more punishing for large vehicles designed for passengers and commuting.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Exactly. The whole point was to help farmers, but it was broad enough that car manufacturers could include SUVs under the rule.
We should’ve just allowed an exemption for models sold exclusively to farmers if that was a concern. Or just, don’t do it.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There are a lot of other personal uses for vans and pickups and other heavier duty vehicles in rural areas which require more power to haul things beyond farmers. Moving large amounts of wood and cleared brush, having off road capabilities that include lots of torque, and other stuff that has nothing to do with highway driving are common outside of cities.
The exemptions should be handled in a way that discourages owning such a vehicle for personal use in an urban setting without being tied to a business. Hell, that could involve who the vehicles are being advertised/targeted to for in addition to literal vehicle types.
The problem was not changing up when it became apparent that the outcome was discouraging high mileage small cars for commuting. Overthinking the how to discourage laerger trucks misses the point that car companies leaned into large vehicles and advertise to convince the population that they needed larger vehicles. They could have been barred from advertising large vehicles.