Buying a new Nissan is a smart move if you hate yourself and get pleasure out of self-harm.  That's about it. 

Probably fine unless you hit a pothole hard. Gonna need to be replaced soon

I can't think of a single competitive Nissan product at this point.

Looking over Nissan's current product portfolio, it becomes readily apparent the Rogue is their only competitive product.  Everything else is either roundly trounced by the competition, or is as old as the hills.  It's obvious Nissan won't (or can't) spend money on product development and frequently resorts to the "mutton dressed as lamb" approach by clothing very old underpinnings in new bodywork.

Look at the Nissan Z.  The 2023 model is effectively a reskin of the 2009 370Z, which itself was based on a slightly modified version of the 2003 350Z platform.  Likewise, the Z's VR engine is an evolution of the VQ engine which is now 30 years old.  So what we have here is a new body masking a very old car underneath.

I got stuck with a Nissan Kicks rental car last year and I can't even begin to fathom why anyone would spend their own money for one.  Wait, I can think on ONE reason.....

Living in Middle Tennessee, I am in Nissan Central.  Their US headquarters is in Franklin and there's a massive production facility in Smyrna, plus the engine plant in Decherd.  Just about everyone here is either related to someone or knows someone who can swing them a killer Friends & Family discount on a new Nissan.  This explains why, like cockroaches in a Waffle House, these damned Nissans are EVERYWHERE in my neck of the woods!

Even with this incentive, I still have no burning desire to buy one.

Quote from: Morris Minor on May 11, 2024, 02:39:39 PMHe had to take over, but it's getting there. Interesting listening to the passengers.

I've driven for 20 years now, and haven't had an at fault accident.  It needs to be better than me to be a viable product.  It can't go a single drive without a dangerous disengagement.

It's a party trick and nothing more.

Not sure if wife or I did this. Safe to drive on interstate?

Flap is about 1/4in. thick.

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BYD will just end up snatching up a traditional automaker and export their vehicles under that name without any tariff... aka Volvo EX30

Chinese EVs are built so cheap they could "destroy the US car industry"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tech/small-well-built-chinese-ev-055434766.html

Well, yeah, even with 100% tariff this one would cost less than most US EVs..... (hmmmm face) 

I've tried IPA and it only works so well.  Unfortunately the water in my area is hard AF and it's leaving semi perminant watermarks on my car, even when using something like No Rinse.

I figured acetone would wreck the clearcoat.  Good to know it's safe.  Thanks.