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re: What car will be the next hood rat sedan? Nissan Altima being discontinued.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 8:40 am to Lexis Dad
Posted on 9/17/25 at 8:40 am to Lexis Dad
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The Versa is a good car.
It's known for having CVT issues. It's more of a disposible car.
Still a demand for something like that if it doesn't suck. But its competitors are mostly used cars, and there are some solid used cars that are better values than a new Versa - like the Sentra, Civic, Accord, or Corolla.
So I guess they couldn't quite make the case to update it and make it more comptitive while keeping the price down.
For $18,000 - the Versa is a good choice. For $22,000 - the Corolla, Trax, Civic, and Sentra are vastly superior choices.
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Posted on 9/17/25 at 9:12 am to Jack Bauer7
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Altima will never be replaced.
They once said the same about Cutlass Supreme's and Coupe DeVille's.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 10:15 am to tonydtigr
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They once said the same about Cutlass Supreme's and Coupe DeVille's.
Bring on the Donks
Posted on 9/17/25 at 10:50 am to Obtuse1
Carlos Ghosn
Posted on 9/17/25 at 10:57 am to Shexter
Accords and Altimas aren’t very different in price, if at all for some models.
Why are Altimas more popular with a certain demographic when an Accord is a 10x better vehicle?
ETA:
I see in this thread it’s related to ease of financing and cheaper resale value.
Carry on
Why are Altimas more popular with a certain demographic when an Accord is a 10x better vehicle?
ETA:
I see in this thread it’s related to ease of financing and cheaper resale value.
Carry on
This post was edited on 9/17/25 at 11:00 am
Posted on 9/17/25 at 11:00 am to deltaland
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Seems like a dumb decision to get rid of their 2nd best selling vehicle after the Rogue. Not to mention the killing they have to make on them in the service department
I don't know if you've noticed, but there isn't a shortage of work that NEEDS to be done to Altimas, but the work that IS done is very minimal.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 11:04 am to WhiskeyThrottle
Put some respek on the OG Crown Vic auctioned police cars
Posted on 9/17/25 at 12:43 pm to Shexter
The Kia Forte was already catching up to the Altima IMO
Posted on 9/17/25 at 1:02 pm to BatonrougeCajun
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My first car out of college was a 05 Altima. I drove it for 10 years. I don’t care what anyone says I had zero issues with that car
My first car ever was a 1997 Nissan Altima I purchased from my dad, was my mom's. Before that it probably had 1-2 other owners too. I too, never had issues with the car.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 1:56 pm to southpawcock
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My first car ever was a 1997 Nissan Altima I purchased from my dad, was my mom's. Before that it probably had 1-2 other owners too. I too, never had issues with the car.
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My first car out of college was a 05 Altima. I drove it for 10 years. I don’t care what anyone says I had zero issues with that car
Both of these pre-date Nissan's decision to put the JATCO CVT in nearly every vehicle they build. Those probably were very sturdy vehicles.
What destroyed Nissan's reputation in this hemisphere was the prolific use of those highly unreliable variable transmissions combined with poor product decisions in their then popular truck products in the North American market in the 2006/2007-2020 timeframe (missteps with the second gen Titan development/design, indefensible decision to cancel the Xterra and turn the Pathfinder into a minivan, etc.) .
They went into the recession with these mistakes. When their competitors started to bounce back in the 2010's, they struggled. Hyundai and Kia started moving more upmarket with better designs at this time too. So Nissan relied on questionable financing to move bad product that informed buyers were avoiding. This changed their demographics to buyers that typically under-maintain and under insure their vehicles. They rapidly went from being an alternative to Ford, Chevrolet, Honda, and Toyota to an alterantive to Mitsubishi and Suzuki (both of which are now either struggling in the US or have abandoned the market).
They followed that up with replacing their old school, reliable engines with variable displacement turbo models with trick camshafts that proved to be very problematic and unreliable as well. That is a massive issue that is still a problem with Nissan's smaller products like the Rogue.
Before that 2007-2015 period, Nissan's products were known for being very sturdy. The Infiniti G35 and Nissan Maxima, Altima in the early 2000's were representative of the company's high water mark in product development. It went down hill FAST from there. In fact the 2006 Altima was the start of the company's rapid product decline.
They only just recently saw the light and are trying to steer out of the ditch - they are committed to bringing back the Infiniti sports sedan (G37 successor), they are doubling down on the Z sports car, and they are bringing back the Xterra SUV. Their latest Armada and Infiniti QX80 are very competitive. They are working with Honda on shared product designs so they can fully utilize their American production capacity to skirt tarriffs.
This post was edited on 9/17/25 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 9/17/25 at 2:11 pm to CatfishJohn
quote:
Accords and Altimas aren’t very different in price, if at all for some models.
Accords sales are way down this year too. Camry is killing it. Honda is likely going to get creative to move them.
Oddly enough the Civic is doing very well.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 2:11 pm to Shexter
I mean, Nissan has to be on the road to insolvency huh?
Posted on 9/17/25 at 2:21 pm to Shexter
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Nissan Altima
Before the Altima could run, the Pontiac gran prix had to walk. That's where I go when I think of cars that looked like they had no business still running down the road.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 2:25 pm to Shexter
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One of the main reasons Nissan plans to discontinue the gas-powered Nissan Altima sedan in 2025 is to focus more on the production of electric vehicles.
Doubling down on stupid, I see
Posted on 9/17/25 at 2:54 pm to goofball
I've never read more truth in a Tigerdroppings post.
quote:
What destroyed Nissan's reputation in this hemisphere was the prolific use of those highly unreliable variable transmissions combined with poor product decisions in their then popular truck products in the North American market in the 2006/2007-2020 timeframe (missteps with the second gen Titan development/design, indefensible decision to cancel the Xterra and turn the Pathfinder into a minivan, etc.) .
They went into the recession with these mistakes. When their competitors started to bounce back in the 2010's, they struggled. Hyundai and Kia started moving more upmarket with better designs at this time too. So Nissan relied on questionable financing to move bad product that informed buyers were avoiding. This changed their demographics to buyers that typically under-maintain and under insure their vehicles. They rapidly went from being an alternative to Ford, Chevrolet, Honda, and Toyota to an alterantive to Mitsubishi and Suzuki (both of which are now either struggling in the US or have abandoned the market).
They followed that up with replacing their old school, reliable engines with variable displacement turbo models with trick camshafts that proved to be very problematic and unreliable as well. That is a massive issue that is still a problem with Nissan's smaller products like the Rogue.
Before that 2007-2015 period, Nissan's products were known for being very sturdy. The Infiniti G35 and Nissan Maxima, Altima in the early 2000's were representative of the company's high water mark in product development. It went down hill FAST from there. In fact the 2006 Altima was the start of the company's rapid product decline.
They only just recently saw the light and are trying to steer out of the ditch - they are committed to bringing back the Infiniti sports sedan (G37 successor), they are doubling down on the Z sports car, and they are bringing back the Xterra SUV. Their latest Armada and Infiniti QX80 are very competitive. They are working with Honda on shared product designs so they can fully utilize their American production capacity to skirt tarriffs.
Posted on 9/17/25 at 2:58 pm to Shexter
They love them chargers, challengers and 300's
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