Its not just Nissan, Ferrari didnt show at Los Angeles either. I'd wager on it just being a sign on the times, everyone is trying to cut back a bit.

Sucks...

^It does suck. Seeing (and sitting in) a Z34 at last year's show got me all fired up to look into Z's again (I wanted one back in HS and again when the Z33 came out but couldn't afford it at the time). It seems to me that the shows are a significant marketing tool and shouldn't be sacrificed so easily, especially since Nissan was one of the only major players absent here this year (Mercedes-Benz was the only other no-show here this year).

There are Nissan TV commercials every other commercial break it seems, it's hard to imagine that attending a car show is too expensive to justify, and we're a small market compared to some of the other cities you guys said they skipped, again it's hard for me to believe.

I hope this is temporary. I can always go to a dealer to look at a car but the show makes it so easy to see everything in a few hours, compared to a few days to see the same number of cars at the dealers.

Nissan is not attending ALL auto shows to cut down cost

It's sad.. NAIAS is nothing like it used to be. They keep wanting to expand the convention center yet the show keeps shrinking. The best part of last year's auto show was losing my $20 at the casino afterwords.

They attended the New England International auto-show in Boston in December.

Not True. I can't remember where I saw the article but Nissan recently listed the auto shows they will be attending this year, not many...about 4 or 5. They did cut back though...I know they were at the Tokyo Auto Salon Show this past weekend...

All I know is they need to bring back the fun stuff at the auto show again... I remember the new york naias having michael keatons batmobile and the back to the future car and stuff.I wanna see christian bales batmobile and other hot movie cars.
Another year I remember jeep rigging up dirt inclines 75 degrees steep and they made there wrangler and cherokee jeeps drive up them. Plus they made a small dirt track of boulders and dirt, then drove there vehicles on them to show how capable there 4wd systems are. That was impressive.
What was best at last years dallas auto show was this guy that had every generation Z and a GT-R. That display made me cream my pants...lol gotta check my sd card for those pics other than that, nothing outrageously creative in auto shows lately.
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The last couple years nissan been saying they won't be doing any auto shows. But then I see them in the dallas auto show. Go figure.

In a lot of these cases it is dealer groups that are shouldering the cost to go into these regional shows when Nissan Corporate is a No-show..

I went to the SLC auto expo and I was also disappointed to not see Nissan there. I did throw up in my mouth a little when I watched a little boy climb all the way to the top of the hoop and onto the windshield of the Corvette ZR1 that was on display..

I think I should've been more clear. When I said Nissan won't attend "ALL", I didn't mean they will not attend all car shows. They will NOT attend ALL car shows but they will go to selected car shows.

Makes sense... the show is a sourrce of pre-sales for the area dealerships. Not having there product @ the show with so many other companies there can hurt sales.

They will be at the only one that matters, the show at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC. April 2-11, 2010. Be there. :tup:

they prob saw the genesis coupe there and got scared:roflpuke2::roflpuke2:

Haha, there was a decent looking Genesis there actually. Didn't get a pic at the show but I found one online. I've always been a sucker for good looking cars in orange, if I ever paint the Z I'll do something like this.

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