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Originally Posted by dark0821
I say that....but Ghosn was dealt a very bad hand when he took over. He did what he could.
- Nissan never hopped on the hybrid train
- they were way too behind/small (as in super super super limited R&D to try and catch up in Hybrid at that point)
- they bet on the EVs (early Leaf) to try and skip hybrid altogether
- even with "ok" Leaf sales, it turned out to be a money losing venture
- with EV sucking up most of the R&D, the rest of the line up suffered
Here we are.... 400Z on what's really a modified .......350Z chassis...
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Originally Posted by JDMDreams
I don't get why they never improved the leaf considering the we're am early adopter. They apparently had hybrid in other markets but we never got much of it in na
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I don't get it either, they spent their money on the Titan, which didn't sell.
You'd think they would look at the Tundra and get it that it is extremely hard to break in. The Titan was also two different trucks, the regular gas and the Titan XD which used a cummins diesel and it got very quickly discontinued. They dumped so much money into it I doubt they made it back.
The Patrol/Armada/QX80 also always operated in the shadow of the Land Cruiser. It was Land Cruiser > Pajero > Patrol.
Those are big money segments, but that's if they sold to begin with.
The Ariya came too late and too little. They could be doing a BMW with electrified drivetrains across their lineup, but instead have two meager offerings.
Their RWD architecture was good, but they did nothing to it since it came out in the 2000's. It's been 20 years and they are still building the same car. You'd think it's a good thing because the tooling is paid off, they can keep making incremental improvements, and it'll be great as enthusiasts laments the death of driving feel. But no, they did things to make it worse. Wifi steering, turbo engine that's unreliable, a convertible that doesn't sell, a hybrid that they didn't advertise.
The hybrid bit, Acura did the same weird thing with the MDX, they made a MDX hybrid for two years, but never advertised it and quietly killed it. I don't know the engineering behind the Q50 hybrid or the MDX hybrid though, RZD might know a bit more