Since you had experienced w/ the Cube... can you give more details? I wanna know.

 

you need to stop trying to be a rebel. jsut because its a honda message board doesnt mean that if you knock down every honda vehicle youll be a cool guy.

i dont really feel like explaining everything i say.

 

Ok, if you say so. There are Hondas that like like... just too bad they don't make them anymore... like the 4th gen Integra, the Prelude... Here are the Hondas that I like that I can still buy (new)... S2000, NSX, Accord 2 door, RSX-S. Just because I don't like all of their cars and thing they're a perfect company doesn't mean I don't like any of their cars. Bleh.. whatever.

p/s: I'm not here to be a cool guy. I'm here because I like the format and the type of discussion that's going on here. Just because I don't worship honda doesn't mean i can't be here.

 

Well the Brits (Car magazine) think the Jazz is the best in its class. That's alot of French and German subcompacts it competes against. Neither the Scions nor the Cube are sold there, however. They think the March is dated, btw.

 

The problem with this move is that...they are copying T/H again! Just when you think they won't follow the big two brands in N.A. anymore.

So is Mitsu bringing the Colt over or what?

 

Nissan never followed Honda. They were larger than Honda up to the mid 90s, when they gave up their performance image and just try to be the 2nd toyota. That didn't work very well so they went back to what they were originally know for, which is top class performance. That got them out of the whole.

 

nissan was never a performance only brand...that would be ferrari or porsche...nissan did have lots of performance cars but they weren't cutting edge with twist beam rear axle and a big v6...similar to what a pontiac is...not high performance but a capable stoplight warrior...and lots of suvs and trucks...several years of sentras didn't even include an se-r model...in fact infiniti didn't have any performance models or true rwd sports sedans until 21st century

honda is no performance brand either but those that think that was nissan's core purpose and continues to be need to look back and consider that statement again

 

True, Nissan is no comparison to car company like Ferrari. However, they were performance oriented car company. Hence the Z heritage. Also the Sylvias and SE-R. Infiniti came out in the early 90s. That's the time frame where Nissan tries to be the 2nd Toyota. Nissan, Honda, and Toyota have similar goals. Which is to sell as many cars to the general public as possible. Each pick an image and stick w/ it. Nissan started w/ an sporty image but went bland in the 90s. Now, they've returned to their sporty image. It might not be the type of performance but they are more sporty than the other cars in its class.

 

maybe we are looking at different directions...i think honda is the premier japanese motorsports company with its total involvement and domination of motor sports and motor bikes...how it is run by engineers, how it rotates its production car engineers into F1 or someother area that pushes the edge of technology (that later gets applied to its production vehicles)...through this technology you get more from less

nissan on the other hand uses big block or forced induction as its main route (with some few noteable exceptions sr16ve [170hp])...that's nice and all but i like efficiency over size...b/c larger engines weigh more and require a heavier frame, etc...this all boils down to lessening the agility of the car...for instance the nsx type r in the jgtc championship doesn't make near the power of its gt-r and supra competitors...but through lighter weight more than makes up for the disadvantage

 

well the murano is the midsize fwd based suv. I guess the xterra would be the mid-size rwd based suv. and since the qx55 is going to be full sized and based off of the titan I'd imagine the same will happen to the pathfinder.

Bear in mind all of this is my own personal speculation since nissan said that the frontier will be going up size to the size of the tundra which would mean that the xterra would follow suit. I dont know if the x-trail does make it here but nissans plans do make room for it. and since the qx55 will be full sized im assuming that the pathfinder will be also.

No guarantees or promises. Just deductive reasoning. But who knows how reasonable nissan is going to be.