What's wrong with Infiniti?

carguy420

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It would be sad to lose Nissan. Growing up here in Southern Canada, Nissan's brand Datsun (before their cars were rebranded as "Nissan") was the first Japanese automaker I recognized, even before Honda and Toyota. Admittedly, it was not a memory of good cars -- it was said that rusty Datsuns were made from tin cans -- but we do tend to remember our "firsts".
Even in my hot as hell country, those Datsuns just rot out so quickly, so many rust holes on the lower parts of the front and rear ends and the side sills 😂.
 

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Hah, bail them out 🤣

If the Japanese government will bail out poorly managed large corporations that end up on the brink of bankruptcy like the American government does way too frequently, they would've bailed out Nissan 25 years ago.
 
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Hah, bail them out 🤣

If the Japanese government will bail out poorly managed large corporations that end up on the brink of bankruptcy like the American government does way too frequently, they would've bailed out Nissan 25 years ago.
I mean... the US and Canadian governments bailing out GM ended up being a good thing for all parties though. It could be the same thing here too.
 

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A bailout isn't enough since Nissan has a talent problem. Their management is incompetent and the employees they get aren't the same quality as Toyota or Honda because they can't match their wages. College graduates in Japan consider Toyota and Honda a prestigious job, but the same is no longer true for Nissan.
 
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A bailout isn't enough since Nissan has a talent problem. Their management is incompetent and the employees they get aren't the same quality as Toyota or Honda because they can't match their wages. College graduates in Japan consider Toyota and Honda a prestigious job, but the same is no longer true for Nissan.
I've never heard of Honda being prestigious like Toyota, I always heard that Toyota was the pride and soul of Japan, so this is news to me.
 
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this is paywalled, but it looks like Nissan is letting Infiniti dealers move back home