Exec Says Nissan Considered Killing Infiniti, has Plans for an "Emotional" (GT-R-Based?) Flagship - Carscoop

 

That's interesting, hopefully he will improve Infiniti, but they need to have manuals if they want to compete with bmw or audi.

 

^ I agree. The transmission should be an option instead of a trim level. 6MT with AWD would be awesome.

 

AWD with 6MT will never happen. Ever.

Nissan isnt stupid.. AWD 6MT transmissions take lots of abuse.

You ever see an Audi S4 dump the clutch at 5K rpm? I have...
The car's nose literally comes off the floor and the thing just ROCKETS out of the hole like Batman coming out of hell... Traction traction traction all day long...

But what receives the abuse? The clutch. Clutches are cooked nicely

 

Nissan is plenty stupid.....they made the juke after all.

 

Link doesn't work

 

The Juke-R is awsome.

 

Of course it is....but the average Joe Schmoe won't have it. They'll most likely have the regular limp deek juke

 

Link in your first post is dead. Here's a working one to the story.
Palmer: Nissan Considered Killing Infiniti | Management & Strategy content from WardsAuto

 

Yeah. All 40 that were built. For $654,000 each. It would take an absolute moron to buy that. 1 crappy vehicle novelty vehicle with a great powertrain, or 6 GT-R's? Hard choice.

 

I agree 654,000 dollars for a juke-r , no way in hell .

I do see an investment tho 20-30 years from now. With only 40 made , the rarity factor is there.

 

Rare or not, it's not special. Just cool. It's not an investment car that will appreciate in value like a low mileage GNX or a Ferrari 250 GTO. You'd never be able to sell that thing for anywhere close to that price. It's basically like a concept car that they made a few extra copies of.

 

Its not Infiniti that is dragging, Nissan as a whole needs to be retooled as a brand.
At this time the other brands have all carved out their marketshare segments with Nissan/Infiniti struggling to still find their footing in it all.

 

Then they obviously got 40 morons with load of cash. The car is on built-per-order basics. $26,160,000, not a bad business at all.

 

I agree, the larger problem is Nissan. They make really good quality vehicles, and should be a bigger player in the market.

However, if this were 10 years ago, I would have said dump Infiniti. At that point, their moment in the sun came and went with the Q45.