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Buy a Suzuki Equator. WTF is Nissan doing pairing up with Suzuki?

BTW, why is Nissan making a delivery van? Leave the commercial van business to the Ford E-series and the Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana


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You're retarded. Why not get into another piece of the pie?

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you're retarded nala, have you actually seen the Nissan LCV? That thing is unreal and offers alot more features that are extremely useful but not offered in any current work van offerings by any other manufacturer. I take alot of what you say at face value for entertainment purposes, but to me, this time you've actually managed to get your foot knee deep into your mouth

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sounds like a good deal for nissan.

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I like the Suzuki Equator, and would buy it over the Frontier any day... if I was actually in the market for a mid sized pick up.

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naladude911 wrote:BTW, why is Nissan making a delivery van? Leave the commercial van business to the Ford E-series and the Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana
Uh...The commercial truck business is a HUGE part of Nissan's business overseas. They make small industrial diesel trucks already. They've been wanting to get into the US commercial market for a while now.

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Not a bad move to pair up with a company. It splits cost of the chassis and/or engine costs if it is shared between companies. It's not the first time it's been done.

In this case. I would guess Nissan benifits from Suzuki by providing the chassis and Suzuki benifits not having to reap manufacturing cost. If the chassis is made in USA, Suzuki doesn't have to pay importation cost or cost of building a whole new factory.

Commerial Vans are another benifit to Nissan, especially if Nissan can lease.

Seems you fail to recognize marketing is fueled on profits, which is everything you bashed so far.

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Dodge stop buying trucks form them, so they needed someone to sell them too.

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Just to point out...the Equator is NOT new.I posted about this two years ago:zer...35334
- wrote:sTm[-HeavyHips]Dodge stop buying trucks form them, so they needed someone to sell them too.
You've got that all the way backward.A) Nissan was to buy trucks from Dodge, not Dodge from NissanB) The Equator has been around since long before those plans fell throughC) Dodge sold rebadged Nissan CARS but never trucks.


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Bored? Meh, not so much..... She'll be in the stable til she dies.


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naladude911 wrote:Buy a Suzuki Equator. WTF is Nissan doing pairing up with Suzuki?

BTW, why is Nissan making a delivery van? Leave the commercial van business to the Ford E-series and the Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana

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I used to have a lighter EXACTLY like that one!

(those were the days)

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nissangirl74 wrote:Bored? Meh, not so much..... She'll be in the stable til she dies.
Looks gooooood

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Apparently Nissan is axing the Quest to make room for production of that NV2000 commercial van/truck. No one will miss it. I imagine most former would-be Quest buyers go for Muranos these days anyway.

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Jesda wrote:
Looks gooooood
Yes it does.

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MinisterofDOOM wrote: Apparently Nissan is axing the Quest to make room for production of that NV2000 commercial van/truck. No one will miss it. I imagine most former would-be Quest buyers go for Muranos these days anyway.
They didn't axe the quest, they shipped production of it back to japan to make room in the Canton Plant for the LCV. (PS. I work there lol)

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MinisterofDOOM wrote:Just to point out...the Equator is NOT new.
this

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BusyBadger wrote:
Bwahahahaha! I have just the pic for that.

EDIT: I wont be mean. Nala knows what pic I was going to post.
Modified by AZ89two4Tsx at 11:09 PM 1/7/2010


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