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Well, I didn’t have that on my bingo card. I wonder where that leaves the Nissan-Renault alliance?
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As demonstrated when the British, then the Americans, then the Germans, then the Japanese, then the Koreans and then the Chinese enter.This is what happens to an industry when the Chinese enter. Legacy western companies consolidate to save cost and with lots of job losses. The consolidations will get bigger and bigger and will probably end with only a few legacy car maker names left.
An interesting observation.and Honda doesn’t have the strength of conviction and reputation that it once did
I think the big difference is the CCP.Car manufacturing is no different, and follows the general shifts in economic power. The US and Europe had its time. Then the Japanese, and more recently the Koreans, and soon it will be the turn of the Chinese.
That’s just age, it happens to us all apart from a few exceptions.Funny that Clarkson has now come full circle describing new cars as "all s**t now"
Didn't Nissan partner with Alfa Romeo at one point ? I also seem to recall Honda partnering with British Leyland at one point .Well, I didn’t have that on my bingo card. I wonder where that leaves the Nissan-Renault alliance?
Being big doesn’t my equate to having clear direction. I would say it’s actually more difficult to have direction the larger a business gets. Large businesses with the founder at the helm tend to hold on to it for longer, but all large businesses have a crisis moment - or in some cases plenty of crisis moments - until they either strike it lucky or fold.Interesting hearing peoples opinions on Nissan. "Lacking direction" is an odd way to describe the UK's biggest volume car producer for the last quarter of a century.
Both VAG and Stellantis have managed to buy up many car companies yet still run them with individual brand identities , despite many components and platforms being shared under the skin to reduce costs .This is what happens to an industry when the Chinese enter. Legacy western companies consolidate to save cost and with lots of job losses. The consolidations will get bigger and bigger and will probably end with only a few legacy car maker names left.
Alfa Arna was the Nissan collaboration IIRC.Didn't Nissan partner with Alfa Romeo at one point ? I also seem to recall Honda partnering with British Leyland at one point .
Same things happened here in the past with lots of independent car manufacturers merging into or being bought up by larger conglomerates , BL being the prime example .
Ahh... The Triumph Accord / Honda AcclaimTriumph Acclaim had a Honda engine.
I remember them lacking direction when I did the AV for the launch of the original Primera , the first product to come out of the then new Sunderland factory , more than a few years ago .Interesting hearing peoples opinions on Nissan. "Lacking direction" is an odd way to describe the UK's biggest volume car producer for the last quarter of a century. Rather reminds me of the (unjustified?) bad mouthing indigenous UK car makers like BL were on the receiving end of thanks to Clarkson et al. Funny that Clarkson has now come full circle describing new cars as "all s**t now"
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