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Old 05-24-2011, 11:57 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Jeffblue View Post
News flash. neither the Z nor the GTR are the bread and butter, cash cow's of nissan. They don't make that much money selling either of these cars. Nissan makes its money selling altimas, maximas, versas, sentras, rogues. They could make hte GTR more fuel efficient, ditch the turbos and DCT and it would be way cheaper then everyone who would otherwise by a maxima could afford one, and they'd sell a hell of a lot more of them. Point is, i'm sure they'd love to sell more Z's but they are more focused on selling more of their main money makers than compromising their higher end sports cars to try and appeal to the masses.
And next up on the nightly news...the sky is blue. In all seriousness, I think the general consensus isn't one of attempting to make the Z a volume seller, more setting it up as a "halo" car along with the GTR simply to attract brand attention.
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