Blåhaj Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Honda and Nissan make it official: Their merger talks are off

www.cbsnews.com

external-link
message-square
20
link
fedilink
192
external-link

Honda and Nissan make it official: Their merger talks are off

www.cbsnews.com

BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago
message-square
20
link
fedilink
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.
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • ms.lane@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    11 months ago

    Thank goodness.

    Honda might have dropped quality a bit over the last decade, but they’re nothing on the dodginess of Nissan.

    I simply wouldn’t buy a modern Nissan vehicle.

    • olympus5737@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      11 months ago

      I am out of the loop on this one. I always thought Nissan made solid vehicles. Even newer ones. Has there been some changes?

      • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        11 months ago

        Their transmissions have been shit for awhile

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    11 months ago

    It seems like if Honda has any interest left in in Nissan, they’ll just buy it out of bankruptcy when that occurs. The only other chance Nissan seems to have is if there is a non-automotive company that wants to become one.

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      11 months ago

      At the start of this I heard ideas that the Japanese government was pressuring them so that Nissan stock (held by many retirement funds) didn’t go to 0.

  • drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    deleted by creator

  • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    11 months ago

    Thank fuck, Nissan is ass.

    • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      11 months ago

      Nissans are the American cars of Japan.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    11 months ago

    How do we pronounce Nissan in mandarin?

    • shundi82@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      日产 = rì chǎn

      (originating from (the land of) the sun)

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    11 months ago

    Unfortunate. Their EVs are a great value.

    • Jhex@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      11 months ago

      Have you owned one?

      They are unreliable and even Nissan itself cannot fix them

      • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        They are very popular for carshare companies. I have rented a NV200 from a carshare for picking up a TV before and it was a nice experience and very inexpensive.

        • Jhex@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          11 months ago

          Maybe in Europe?, the electric version never made it to North America

          Only the Leaf made it and they cannot even fix them. My friends are on their third battery pack in 4 years of ownership; last replacement took 8 months

          • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            11 months ago

            Yes, in Europe.

        • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          11 months ago

          There is a reason they are inexpensive. Their batteries are terribly designed with no thermal management.

  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    11 months ago

    RIP GT-R Type-R

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    11 months ago

    My first car was a Nissan. This is depressing.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      11 months ago

      My first car was a Nissan too. It was an unreliable piece of shit. So based on that palpable experience, I’m glad this merger is off.

  • drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    11 months ago

    deleted by creator

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      11 months ago

      Why they want to sell them to Tesla? Ignoring that Nissan has nothing to offer to them (chademo? LOL), all Elmo is going to do is fire everyone and run the company to the ground. Any toddler can do that.

      • drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        11 months ago

        deleted by creator

        • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          11 months ago

          Not much point in assembly plants for ICE cars. Why pay for what’s essentially a warehouse.

  • 7toed@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    11 months ago

    deleted by creator

World News@lemmy.world

world@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !world@lemmy.world

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

  • Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:

    • Post news articles only
    • Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
    • Title must match the article headline
    • Not United States Internal News
    • Recent (Past 30 Days)
    • Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
  • Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think “Is this fair use?”, it probably isn’t. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.

  • Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.

  • Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.

  • Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025

  • Rule 5: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to “Mom! He’s bugging me!” and “I’m not touching you!” Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

  • Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.

  • Rule 7: We didn’t USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you’re posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

  • How to spot Misinformation and Propaganda

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

  • Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 3.54K users / day
  • 7.38K users / week
  • 11.6K users / month
  • 20.2K users / 6 months
  • 421 local subscribers
  • 52.2K subscribers
  • 27.6K Posts
  • 349K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • NewsAutoMod@lemmy.world
  • Tenthrow@lemmy.world
  • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.world
  • Calvinball Champ@lemmy.world
  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
  • UI: 0.19.13
  • BE: 0.19.13-modified
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org