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[MAGNUMB]

Looks like the Japanese government is "urging" this merger. And if the only rumors are true, it is because they fear China. That is concerning for all of us. The fact that the moronic government is pushing EVs on us and the fact that consumers keep resisting that garbage isn't helping anyone. If this merger happens, it will make the Honda/Nissan/Mitsubishi conglomerate the third largest auto manufacturer. I don't like it for Honda. Size alone will not help Honda. Ask GM. Nissan hasn't made a desirable vehicle since the late 90's or early 2000's with the last being the 370Z. The heavyweight tank that is the GT-R does nothing for me. They do have trucks, but the Titan isn't a contender at all in any way and it rides on an ancient platform. The Frontier is a warmed-over turd on an ancient chassis and barely in the running with the other midsize trucks. Mitsubishi only makes junk econoboxes. I could care less about Honda as well, but at least they make reliable vehicles. I honestly can't think of a Honda I've ever lusted after, but I'm not a ricer. The Acura NSX is cool, but that's far from a typical Honda.


The DS has my eye for parking lot racing, but all my on-road cars sit idle on shelves.

Making decisions out is fear is usually never a good thing...hope Honda stays in the game though

It's a shame the Titan/Frontier was never a contender, because these days i'm appreciating simpler/ancient platforms more and more. I'm seeing more and more "new/fancy" turds out there these days

"Looking at the survey, new-vehicle owners reported 192 problems per 100 vehicles on average. That’s up from 180 a year earlier and 162 in 2021, when quality assurance really started taking a nosedive.

While new-vehicle quality improved for 12 of the 33 brands ranked in the study, some of the names at the top of the list were a big surprise. Numerous Stellantis brands accrued far fewer complaints than other marquees, including Alfa Romeo, and was followed by a slew of nameplates owned by General Motors.

Other names that managed to beat the industry average you might not have expected to see included Mini, Nissan, and all of the Korean brands. Even stranger was that Toyota failed to beat the industry average — coming in right behind Mitsubishi, which has been working to improve its quality control for years"

 

[MAGNUMB]

Couldn't have said it better bro!

I think swe need to invest in infrastructure We don't need these huge capacity batteries in EVs they just need to charge like theyre a slot track car, lol. Inductive!!!

Never been a nissan fan, just by my friends bitchin about em. Most folk that owned one had some sort of issues, usually a costly transmission part replacement on a Rogue. A flap in the front vent system in the titan/armada causing no A/C being broken shut, 5.6 burning oil.........

My wife and I owned a 2001 mitsubishi galant, that thing was a tank! Lived through 3 accidents and still drove us home 50 miles after getting hit for it's last time.

Nissan made a terrible mistake putting in CVT transmissions in a bunch of vehicles without doing their due diligence. They were garbage.
CVTs can be very good if properly sorted...just look at Subaru that has been doing them for over a decade now and might actually take top spot in quality soon. They had some teething issues at 1st, but that goes with any new major change.

 

[ferp420]

Nissan made a terrible mistake putting in CVT transmissions in a bunch of vehicles without doing their due diligence. They were garbage.
CVTs can be very good if properly sorted...just look at Subaru that has been doing them for over a decade now and might actually take top spot in quality soon. They had some teething issues at 1st, but that goes with any new major change.

i have 1 of those rouge with the dreaded cvt but it was hardly ever driven and has no miles on it and it was dirt cheap even if we have to replace the transmission twice it would still be a good deal
i hate it though i liked the other nissans ive had and drove but the rouge sucks

 

[MAGNUMB]

i have 1 of those rouge with the dreaded cvt but it was hardly ever driven and has no miles on it and it was dirt cheap even if we have to replace the transmission twice it would still be a good deal
i hate it though i liked the other nissans ive had and drove but the rouge sucks

If i remember correctly some of those CVTs started having problems around a specific mileage.
I drove a 2004 Nissan Altima as a rental and really enjoyed it...tons of leg and head room and fun to drive

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Making decisions out is fear is usually never a good thing...hope Honda stays in the game though

It's a shame the Titan/Frontier was never a contender, because these days i'm appreciating simpler/ancient platforms more and more. I'm seeing more and more "new/fancy" turds out there these days

"Looking at the survey, new-vehicle owners reported 192 problems per 100 vehicles on average. That’s up from 180 a year earlier and 162 in 2021, when quality assurance really started taking a nosedive.

While new-vehicle quality improved for 12 of the 33 brands ranked in the study, some of the names at the top of the list were a big surprise. Numerous Stellantis brands accrued far fewer complaints than other marquees, including Alfa Romeo, and was followed by a slew of nameplates owned by General Motors.

Other names that managed to beat the industry average you might not have expected to see included Mini, Nissan, and all of the Korean brands. Even stranger was that Toyota failed to beat the industry average — coming in right behind Mitsubishi, which has been working to improve its quality control for years"

I hope Honda sticks around for sure.

I like tech and creature comforts. Sometimes it is completely unnecessary though and flat out stupid. I think it was Jaguar that replaced the oil dipstick with a menu on the dash. Oil level checks should be simple and physical not digital and relying on sensors that can fail. Moronic decision here.

Hyundai and Kia get a bad rap, but for everybody I know that has actually owned one long-term, they have had great luck. One did have a model affected by the 2.0L oil consumption, but their engine was replaced under warranty. My Soul had the 2.0L supposed oil-consumption engine and it was fine up to 100,000+ miles when I rolled it and totaled it. I had it for over 10 years and it was trouble-free. And I beat on my vehicles and am not the best at maintaining them. My late girlfriend had a Sportage that she bought before we met. It was somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 miles when she passed away and it had also had zero issues. So far I'm loving my Hyundai Santa Cruz. I love that people are sleeping on the brands (Hyundai and Kia) because they are still some of the best bang-for-your-bucks, are very reliable, and competitive in their segments. I love the underdog in some cases. And Hyundai and Kia have made some kick ass performance cars too. Sadly, the new ones are electric. The future of Hyundai and Kia looks very bright.

Nissan made a terrible mistake putting in CVT transmissions in a bunch of vehicles without doing their due diligence. They were garbage.
CVTs can be very good if properly sorted...just look at Subaru that has been doing them for over a decade now and might actually take top spot in quality soon. They had some teething issues at 1st, but that goes with any new major change.

CVTs suck. I would never call them good. They are put in cars for one reason - they are dirt cheap to make. Profits talk more than anything. They just feel terrible to drive. They can be reliable, something Honda and Nissan haven't figured out, but they are the new "slushbox" that will suck the excitement out of any and every vehicle.

 

[bgredjeep]

I was very interested in the titan xd with the diesel, but they priced it the same as the 3/4 ton diesels from the other manufacturers. They didn't sell and they got pulled. It's a shame since imo it was the best motor in the half ton market, just too expensive.

 

[Gula]

I love Honda, the tiny company, that made bikes, (or was it sewing machines, bicycles, eh, not important atm?) a brand that was told it would never be much more than a motorcycle manufacturer by others.
Is the ONE AND ONLY company that makes everything from off road side by side vehicles, quads, cars, bikes, seacraft, robots, hondajet aircraft and I even think they're dabbling in spacecraft as weĺl.

I hope honda does stick around without the "bloat"

 

[Greatscott]

CVTs suck. I would never call them good. They are put in cars for one reason - they are dirt cheap to make. Profits talk more than anything. They just feel terrible to drive. They can be reliable, something Honda and Nissan haven't figured out, but they are the new "slushbox" that will suck the excitement out of any and every vehicle.

I am not a fan of them, and have steered away from them when buying cars.

In SXSs, the only brand that doesn't have a CVT is Honda. Honda makes a very good machine, but sadly, my 6'5" frame does not fit in them very well, or, at all. The one SXS I can actually drive and be comfortable in is my Can Am Commander. I will not say there is ample leg room, but I can drive it without being folded like a taco. I was not happy with having to have a CVT, but I accepted it.
While I'd much prefer gears, and I am not thrilled by Can Am's CVT "clunk", the transmission has been solid for all the abuse I have put it through. And, servicing the CVT and changing the belt are not hard at all, and can easily be done on the trail. This is where cars with CVTs have grossly missed the mark, servicing/repairing their CVTs is a giant and expensive pain in the butt, and this is for those that are made properly. It seems like the engineers could have designed car CVTs with the idea that the belt needs to be both readily accessible and easy to replace, a good many complaints about CVT would go away. But, making cars easy to work on takes away a big chunk of the revenue.

JMHO...

 

[MAGNUMB]

I hope Honda sticks around for sure.

I like tech and creature comforts. Sometimes it is completely unnecessary though and flat out stupid. I think it was Jaguar that replaced the oil dipstick with a menu on the dash. Oil level checks should be simple and physical not digital and relying on sensors that can fail. Moronic decision here.

Hyundai and Kia get a bad rap, but for everybody I know that has actually owned one long-term, they have had great luck. One did have a model affected by the 2.0L oil consumption, but their engine was replaced under warranty. My Soul had the 2.0L supposed oil-consumption engine and it was fine up to 100,000+ miles when I rolled it and totaled it. I had it for over 10 years and it was trouble-free. And I beat on my vehicles and am not the best at maintaining them. My late girlfriend had a Sportage that she bought before we met. It was somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 miles when she passed away and it had also had zero issues. So far I'm loving my Hyundai Santa Cruz. I love that people are sleeping on the brands (Hyundai and Kia) because they are still some of the best bang-for-your-bucks, are very reliable, and competitive in their segments. I love the underdog in some cases. And Hyundai and Kia have made some kick ass performance cars too. Sadly, the new ones are electric. The future of Hyundai and Kia looks very bright.


CVTs suck. I would never call them good. They are put in cars for one reason - they are dirt cheap to make. Profits talk more than anything. They just feel terrible to drive. They can be reliable, something Honda and Nissan haven't figured out, but they are the new "slushbox" that will suck the excitement out of any and every vehicle.

CVTs don't really suck... They do suck if you are a hormonal teenager or like to race around all the time. haha.
But even the car critics that test drove the Subaru WRX with CVT actually like it. And i actually think they made them to improve MPG more than anything as the 1st gen CVTs were very expensive to produce.

If you got in a newer CVT car and drove it around like a regular human being then they are not bad at all and actually really good for daily driving. Test drove a bunch of SUVs a couple years ago and the Subaru Ascent was a really good driving experience. Everyone loves to hate on the CVT It is sticking around though and improving constantly. Interestingly enough, they used them in F1 cars some years back and were banned because CVTs keep the engine in the "sweet spot" and they lost that shift sound F1 is so famous for...but they were about a whole second faster around the track than standard ones

 

[MAGNUMB]

I am not a fan of them, and have steered away from them when buying cars.

In SXSs, the only brand that doesn't have a CVT is Honda. Honda makes a very good machine, but sadly, my 6'5" frame does not fit in them very well, or, at all. The one SXS I can actually drive and be comfortable in is my Can Am Commander. I will not say there is ample leg room, but I can drive it without being folded like a taco. I was not happy with having to have a CVT, but I accepted it.
While I'd much prefer gears, and I am not thrilled by Can Am's CVT "clunk", the transmission has been solid for all the abuse I have put it through. And, servicing the CVT and changing the belt are not hard at all, and can easily be done on the trail. This is where cars with CVTs have grossly missed the mark, servicing/repairing their CVTs is a giant and expensive pain in the butt, and this is for those that are made properly. It seems like the engineers could have designed car CVTs with the idea that the belt needs to be both readily accessible and easy to replace, a good many complaints about CVT would go away. But, making cars easy to work on takes away a big chunk of the revenue.

JMHO...

Most CVTs now are metal chain/belt driven and i hear ya about having a hard time fitting in cars. Very hard to find a comfortable car if over 6'5"

Been snowmobiling since the 80s and all my sleds have had "CVTs"...don't think they made a sled without it. They are perfect for sleds

 

[svt923]

Everyone loves to hate on the CVT

The Nissan Jatco CVTs are so spectacularly shitty that all CVTs have to pay the price on perception.

In reality, most automotive CVTs are fine yet boring and that suits the vast majority of the gray crossover buying public who are also boring.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

CVTs don't really suck... They do suck if you are a hormonal teenager or like to race around all the time. haha.
But even the car critics that test drove the Subaru WRX with CVT actually like it. And i actually think they made them to improve MPG more than anything as the 1st gen CVTs were very expensive to produce.

If you got in a newer CVT car and drove it around like a regular human being then they are not bad at all and actually really good for daily driving. Test drove a bunch of SUVs a couple years ago and the Subaru Ascent was a really good driving experience. Everyone loves to hate on the CVT It is sticking around though and improving constantly. Interestingly enough, they used them in F1 cars some years back and were banned because CVTs keep the engine in the "sweet spot" and they lost that shift sound F1 is so famous for...but they were about a whole second faster around the track than standard ones

I can't disagree more. I have flat out refused to buy cars because they were only offered in CVT. I drive a CVT at least weekly - my girlfriend's Subaru Crosstrek. I was in a Honda CRV CVT the last two days. Again, it sucks. BTW I also think that YouTuber is a clown. He's said things in certain videos that is flat-out wrong. Now I'm sure that could be said of every YouTuber. We all make mistakes and get things wrong, but I can't stand that guy.

I also grew up riding sleds with CVTs. They make sense in sleds, but you can keep them for everything and anything else.