The auto companies are trying to get you out of cars you want to drive for more expensive cars that you don’t want to drive. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
It appears that Nissan is the latest manufacture to say sayonara to sedans.
According to Automotive News, both will be gone within 24 months, beginning with the Versa – which will reportedly end its 18-year-long production run after the end of the 2025 model year. Then comes – or rather, goes – the Altima, which has been around for more than 30 years.
This will leave Nissan with just one sedan – the Sentra. And that probably not for long. The question is – why? There are several possible answers but one of them makes the most sense.
These two sedans don’t cost enough.
Put another way, they cost too little relative to the devices Nissan (and other vehicle manufacturers) have bought into manufacturing but which they’re all having trouble selling. Models like the Leaf, which is so hard to sell that Nissan dealers have had to resort to giving them away, just about, in order to clear the inventory. The Ariya, which is Nissan’s other device, has likewise got a Sales Problem.
Sales of the Versa, meanwhile, are up by more than 60 percent. Yet Nissan has decided – apparently – to stop selling it. No one stops selling something that sells that well – unless they’re hoping to sell something else in its place. Something that costs more to buy – and so brings in more money. Like the latest automotive AC refrigerant, as a for-instance. It costs about $10 per can now – which is about three times as much (adjusted for inflation) as what a can of the now-very
Freon! Some local heathens used to hit that for a buzz while not caring about the suddenly.
What a glorious misspent youth!
A BMX bud from back in the day owns a dry cleaners and has some vintage Scotch Guard, treated my camo puffer with it and the rain wicks right off.
There won’t be any personal mobility in the Fundamentally Transformed gilded butt plug bath house Benetton free rainbow stew bubble up society, silly, get your fabulous hot pink Jim J Bollock bike today!
And besides, sedans are constructs of the white male patriarchy.
You can’t even find an old style manual car wash anymore, had some tokens left over, enough for one, and the place was out of business.
Pwease no carbonz, Ywes wee cans!
Oui, oui, mommygov keep me safety.
Safety uber alles.
(strikes limp wristed mom jeans pose while on bubble wrapped bike with metal motorcycle helmet on)
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