They sold 12 of those bad boys I believe.
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I drove one when it first came out. Horrific vehicle.
During the test drive the sales guy kept telling me that I could be the first person to register one in California. 
He failed to also tell you you’d probably be the only one too.
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So let’s the Murano is as good as you say it is (and I have no reason to doubt you). That still just leaves them w/ one standout car (even if it’s in a vital category). 
Where is the Infiniti version of this car (which would be even more vital since they presumably would have greater profit margin on a luxury version)?
I’ve only defended the interior of one Nissan/Infiniti vehicle. It’s my wife’s vehicle. I wouldn’t buy any of their other vehicles right now. But damn those seats are comfy.
Wouldn’t a luxury version of the Murano just look like and RX350?
Anyone have change for a button?
LOL. There does seem to be a shake out coming in the US Market with the death of the sedan well documented. So much competition in a flat growth market and Tesla and Kia/Hyundai are really disrupting things.
They should just cut all models as theyre all terrible, but I guess then what cars would we use as rentals…
Nissans slogan:
“Nissan the official sponsor of Enterprise”
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Nissan was #5 in the US market share in Q2. Nissan was surprisingly 2nd “best” of the top 6 which all declined between 1.3 and 8.8%
2019 Q2 vs. 2018 Q2
Ford 613,098|651,366 |-5.9|
Toyota 539,448|546,487 |-1.3|
Chevrolet 486,884|511,719 |-4.9|
Honda 370,026|386,094 |-4.2|
Nissan 322,442|333,409 |-3.3|
Jeep 243,477|266,917 |-8.8|
Ram 196,155|146,687 |33.7|
Hyundai 185,743|183,271 |1.3|
Subaruv 182,771|173,157 |5.6|
Kia 168,248|166,618 |1.0|
GMC 151,701|138,165 |9.8|
Also crazy to see Tesla selling almost as many vehicles in the US as Audi in Q2 (within 100 units) and not far below Acura and Infiniti combined.
Well none of them had a 99% profit drop…
And how many of Nissan sales were rental cars?
Yep. Nissan must be discounting heavily with no margin fleet and consumers in a bid to hold market share with an aging fleet
“In terms of market share leaders, Ford had the largest market share in commercial and government fleets while Nissan had the largest market share in rental fleets.”
2019 Cox Automotive forecast updated 05/18/19
So are you helping or hurting my case?
Cause 34% of all the rental cars sold were Nissans in Quarter 1 2019
Ford and Nissan are both struggling and they sell the most % of vehicles to fleet customers. Not a good place to be
It keeps the lights on but that’s about it. It’s like LH deals…moving metal to move metal.
Yeah, but is Smyrna unionized where they HAVE to keep the lights on? I don’t think it is, but could be wrong.
So what have Nissan engineers been working on? How is every platform 10+ years old?