Comments on: Ghosn: U.S. market to show signs of recovery by year’s end

By: Yomama Sophat

Yomama Sophat — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:38:30 +0000

@Borat, re:

“I don’t know if Mullally is in the same league as Ghosn, but Mulally still drives and own his LS460. Perhaps he knows something about cars.”

Ya gotta be shittin’ me…some morale builder that’s gotta be, for Ford employees…

By: Yomama Sophat

Yomama Sophat — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:35:52 +0000

@johnnycanuck, re:
“Speaking of Ghosn and all things Nissan what’s happening with the Ram based Titan and the Versa based small car they were going to do for Chrysler? I could see the truck thing still happening but with the Fiat deal I hardly think Chrysler needs (or is going to need) another small car.”

Not only that, but isn’t Nissan building the fugliest small cars? Every time I see a Versa I can’t help thinking how hideous it is, in hatchback or regular form…

By: carstuff

carstuff — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:13:07 +0000

Actually just saying “we’re OK now” would solve the problem. People would feel confident to start buying and the recession would be over.

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:29:19 +0000

I don’t know where these people are getting their delusions from. I don’t expect to see any kind of forward economic progress until late 2010 at the earliest.

We haven’t even seen the extent of fallout from Chrysler & GM bankruptcies yet. Exactly how many plants and dealerships are going to close permanently? How many thousands more are going to lose their jobs? What about the auto suppliers who are apparently in such bad shape? How many of them will lay off half their workers (or more) or close down completely before this all gets sorted out? Let’s also not forget about the fact that fuel prices are on the rise again… they’ve jumped 20 cents in the last month here in town… that is going to effect everything.

This isn’t a situation where we can say “We’re okay now.” and somehow it magically happens… we’ve still got a ways to go yet before things get “better” by any measurable margin.

By: carstuff

carstuff — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:21:03 +0000

May hit a SAAR of 9.9 million, showing a continuous rise from November I believe. Will we hit a total of 10 million this year? Most likely. May would have been much higher but the imports really fell during May.

GM/Ford also continue to increase market share.

So I would agree that we are having a recovery which will continue slowly and then accelerate in 2010.

By: MurcieMe

MurcieMe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:32:01 +0000

I think Lamborghini are concerned with a *slightly* different market than Nissan / Renault!

By: bigdawg

bigdawg — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:31:06 +0000

I’m trying to recover from that photograph of that Versa! LOL

By: Borat

Borat — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:24:37 +0000

I don’t know if Mullally is in the same league as Ghosn, but Mulally still drives and own his LS460. Perhaps he knows something about cars.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:12:32 +0000

If the market picks up in H2, it wont be for Nissan products. They have squat in the queue. Ford will see a pick up though with the Taurus, and I am starting to see new Fusions all over.

By: Dr. Lincoln

Dr. Lincoln — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:56:27 +0000

Ghosn and Mulally two of the best in the automotive business as we speak. Both of their companies are surviving dispite the fact that they don’t have the most popular products on the market. Steady as she goes.

By: StepAhead

StepAhead — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:32:49 +0000

I think Mr Ghosn is spot on.

By: jayjc08

jayjc08 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:27:59 +0000

Bottom line is they need a very good small car. Something to compete with the Civic, Corolla, Focus, etc. Just a straight forward well designed, good looking sedan.

Compact sedans are developing similar to how mid sized sedans were evolving in the 80′s.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:57:39 +0000

Speaking of Ghosn and all things Nissan what’s happening with the Ram based Titan and the Versa based small car they were going to do for Chrysler? I could see the truck thing still happening but with the Fiat deal I hardly think Chrysler needs (or is going to need) another small car.