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Honda's a little arrogant considering their EU sales are in the shitter and so are their South East Asia sales.
On hybrids, geared systems are just terribly inefficient and expensive - F150 Powerboost, MDX Sport Hybrid, Land Cruiser/Tundra, Wrangler 4XE all blow dicks.
Honda's IMA system also had guaranteed failure.
Nissan's half dead because Japanese and French management fighting left no one to steer the ship. But with..
1) Strong sales in price sensitive markets like EU / South East Asia / South America
2) Large and powerful product mix on small end (Rogue Sport, Kicks, Versa)
3) ePower that can scale well to larger platforms unlike Toyota HSD
4) Homegrown EV tech that's better than Toyota/Honda Prologue
It's unfair to say they're doing shit; Japan just didn't want Foxconn to acquire Nissan.
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- '16 Golf 1.8T
- '09 MB E63 AMG
- '06 Honda Accord V6
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