Japanese auto giants Honda and Nissan confirmed they've scrapped merger talks announced in December, ending a potential combination that would have created the world's third-largest automaker.
If they were pressured into a merger by the Japanese government, what is the path forward? You could a) wind down Nissan or b) solve their major problem by putting Honda engines and transmissions in them. Which also brings their engine r&d cost to 0.
Honda could have put honda engines in them and let Nissan just do their own styling.
Let Nissan do the styling? No, no, no. They already vomited out the Juke and Cube, we don’t need more vehicular abominations out there on the roads…
The Juke is the perfect amount of hideous that it flips the bit back to being great. Even the Cube is the right kind of quirky.
What’s wrong with the Cube?
https://lemmy.world/comment/15241604
You don’t need to merge with Nissan to do that if you’re Honda. Just buy out their design team. Much cheaper lol.
Edit: spelling
I agree, I’m just saying that’s what I would have seen them doing. See my other comment that the rumor was Japanese government pressured them into it.
Why?
Nissans haven’t look good in ~20 years.
If they were pressured into a merger by the Japanese government, what is the path forward? You could a) wind down Nissan or b) solve their major problem by putting Honda engines and transmissions in them. Which also brings their engine r&d cost to 0.