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The quality of Nissan vehicles (and most other car companies as well) seems much better. My sister had a 1983 Nissan Sentra Wagon that barely had enough horse power to maintain 65 mph on the freeway and had so many engine rattles that she worried pieces of the engine would start falling out
I have a 2010 Nissan Versa hatchback that is absolutely flawless for an "econ box". Handle great, has enough horse power to merge on the freeway, no engine rattles at all, and it has really nice storage areas and cup holders (actually more of both than my in law's 2011 Camry). Mine has 42,000 miles on it and zero problems at all. Sis's '83 barely made it to 120,000.
its true that cars have greatly improoved this past few decades , i meant that nisann,s reputation was once comparable to toyota , maybe im just basing my assumption on nissann sales in ireland , they dont sell as well as they did fifteen to twenty years ago , over here , toyota , ford and volkswagon are the big three
Over the last few years we had a Senta and a Quest. We no longer needed such a large vehicle so we got rid of the Quest but they were both great. We have had many cars, vans and trucks over the years and the Nissan's were some of the best.
i think its funny how american pronounce the word nissan = nee - sann
in europe or at least the uk and ireland , its niss - ann
as for the cars themselves , IMO , thier not as good as they were twenty years ago when they were as good as toyota , i think thier average cars at best and most of them are plain janes , qashkai is ok i suppose
And those wankers on BBC TV call it the Pry-us while we wankers over here call it the Pree-us
We didn't buy anything but Nissan from 1990 until 2008, when I bought the Sorento. Salesman attitude turned me off. We were set to drop $27k on a Murano and the jerk wouldn't even call us back. When I finally gave up and called him he didn't remember me.
We didn't buy anything but Nissan from 1990 until 2008, when I bought the Sorento. Salesman attitude turned me off. We were set to drop $27k on a Murano and the jerk wouldn't even call us back. When I finally gave up and called him he didn't remember me.
Scr3w you, Nissan.
But their cars are reliable as all get out.
You were going to buy something with a name that means "Pig" in Spanish?
If I was in a position to award medals for...bravery(?)...that act of courage deserves one.
Obviously, you never had the "pleasure" of owning a Datsun SPL-310 or 311.
I would call those cars unmitigated pieces of crap, but that would probably be unfair to the crap.
Those cars were a mechanical disaster, and were the poster children for the term "rust bucket" after only 1 year.
Some years later, I had the misfortune to rent a new Datsun/Nissan coupe in California, and the acceleration was reminiscent of a walking schizophrenic. While it was capable of decent acceleration, you never really knew what would happen when you floored the gas pedal, and--more often than not--you would get a cough and the slowest acceleration since the Model T. Other times, it could actually accelerate like a real car of the '80s. However, you never knew which persona this schizo car would display each time that you drove it.
While Nissans or more recent vintage are much more reliable than the junk that they sold years ago, the styling of most of their cars is just too bizarre for my taste. Whether it is the Maxima, or the Cube, or the Juke (usually referred to as the "Joke"), I wouldn't be seen dead in any of those cars. And, the new Versa has taken about 5 steps backward in driving dynamics from the earlier Versa model. What was originally an "okay" econobox is now the new automotive equivalent of the Penalty Box.
Truthfully, the only Nissan that I would consider at this point is the Altima.
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You were going to buy something with a name that means "Pig" in Spanish?
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