The wife and I spent a few hours at the annual local auto show today. After making our way around the expo center I wondered how I missed the Nissan
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01-16-2010, 09:26 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Nissan "no-show" at the auto show
The wife and I spent a few hours at the annual local auto show today. After making our way around the expo center I wondered how I missed the Nissan area, so I pulled out the map but couldn't find Nissan on it anywhere. Just about every other auto-maker was there but Nissan was a no-show. I was surprised and a bit disappointed. I had been looking forward to checking out the roadster in person. Any ideas why Nissan would skip the show?
No Nissan: We did see lots of other cool cars. Always been a fan of Porsche: My wife liked the plaid in the GTI: There was a Nissan Dealer on the way home so we stopped by just to check out the Roadster. I was planning to ask someone at the Dealer why Nissan wasn't at the show but during the 10 minutes or so we were there checking out cars nobody approached us. I've never had that happen at a dealer before. What's up Nissan?
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They must be doing OK on sells.
I went last year to a Motor Trend Car Show and all Nissan had for display was a lonely 370Z. Quote:
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Nissan has been skipping a lot of auto shows because of the reduction in car sales. Since 2007, nissan total sales have dropped near 40% and the only true seller is the altima. Even sentra is so hard hit that this year, it got a new fascia, navigation, upgraded suspension, interior updates and instead of nissan raising the price... they dropped the price by $1,000.
Prices have dramatically increased on infiniti packages and a mild increase on the Z tranny and touring package to cover some of the costs. Also they will again for the 3rd year, will only appear in very few auto shows limited to major cities. It costs nissan millions of dollars a year to attend auto shows... so until car sales start picking up? This will be the trend. |
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I flew up to the Detroit Auto Show last year to see the Audi Sportback (A7) and noticed that Nissan didn't show up there either. That actually led me to check out the 370Z (at my dealer) and Bam... Purchased one!
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I know why.
I was looking for the Z at the auto show too, but only saw one nissan car, the electric Leaf. So i asked one of the girls and she told me that Nissan is banking on the Leaf and that's all they want to focus on at autoshows. |
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For the 09 international auto show, here in dallas. They featured the Z on the platform, 09 maxima, 09 altima rogue and murano. The state fair auto show nissan was missing but infiniti was there. The fort worth auto show they didn't show up at all. So that's where my conclusion was drawn that they probably do only select cities.
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Infiniti was there...lol
Auto shows arent fun anymore..... the only car worth seeing at the one here was the Essence Concept.... other than that, it's all production cars that you see on the roads already. |
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That's not true at all. I was never all about the concept cars in the first place but I love going to auto-shows to get a chance to sit in all those cars you see every day. Its a great way to sample a whole bunch of cars in one day if you're thinking about buying soon.
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Neither Nissan nor Infiniti made a showing at the Tampa FL show...
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