Nissan Sales Drop 37.1%
Nissan’s sales, too, took a brutal pounding last month, with their trucks particularly leading the plunge. While the Versa held on (5045 this February compared to 5708 in Feb ’08), the Sentra fell 21% and the Altima took a header of 31.5%, falling to 16,002 from last February’s 23,363. The trucks were the true mess though, collectively down 51%. The Frontier collapsing from 4661 to 1617 in February (a 65.3% drop) and the Titan down to 1508 from 3794 (down 60.3%). The Xterra had a similar tragedy, from 3548 to 1105 units (−68.9%) and the Pathfinder, too, was down 60.2% to 1498 in February compared with 3765 in February 2008. The Rogue was a small bright spot, which actually was up a bit to 5500 sales, while the Murano fell from 10,074 to 4126 units. Infiniti limped along with gains from the new FX, but the crucial G sedan and coupe were down 47.5 and 45.7% respectively. That amounts to almost 2700 lost G sales versus last February. Ouch.
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The GTR Spec V just has to beat some other Porsche variant by a couple of seconds on a track none of us will ever drive on and the world will marvel at it and Nissan will finally become the number one automaker in the universe. Bleh.
R1: *sigh* I never mentioned the phrase GT-R or "sucks" in any of my posts above. The GT-R could be hotter than the Starship Enterprise. There's still no huge revenue stream in it as it's a gimmick. I've also looked into it some more and perhaps they'll be Ok. Their market share seems to be holding together at about 8%. I'm done. I guess I'll go join in with the down with GM/Chrysler faction as they have my tax dollars. If any tax dollars go towards Nissan they'll be from France or Japan.
walksatnight I don't disagree with most of your assesment but I think bland just set off a few WTF's in here. That was all. Kinda like a post with "I like the ZR1 but find it underpowered". Just seems a little weird. Overall I get your point about Nissans market. R1 06M3S54B32 said the strange stuff about fantasy super cheap Used German sports cars.
Man, the GT-R testosterone is flowing in here big time...