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Wow! An all new compact DOHC high-2009-technology V-8 engine that will get 30 mpg and deliver more power, that can fit in a Chevy Aveo!

I can't wait for such an engine! This is da bomb!

This is just Honda's way of supporting America.

The Marysville, Ohio-built Accord is only for sale to big American people.

Small Asian drivers will be penalized for driving the big American Accord.

Small Asian drivers are referred to the Honda Fit, which is built in Japan, for small Asian people.

Your wife is loyal, pretty, fun to be around, cooks a mean dinner, etc.....but that sexy redhead neighbor chick is so much sexier.

I'll take both. mmmmmm.... it's so good in the middle.

My brothers, everyone take two. We can all have a good life.

While I'm in spewing mode, it was interesting to find that Toyota Motor Corporation is 579 companies.

http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/about_toyota/overview/index.html

Facts are fun.

Arguing on the internet... not so much.

It's and interesting reminder that car companies collaborate.

GM uses Toyota transmissions in the Saab 9-3, 9-5, Aveo, Equinox, and Torrent.

http://media.gm.com/us/powertrain/en/produ.../2007/07car.htm

GM also has a joint venture with Toyota, the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. factory in California, which builds the Tacoma, Corolla, and Vibe.

http://www.nummi.com/

GM's safety technologies are joint researched with Toyota.

http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/safety...ota_030206.html

...I'm not going anywhere... I'm just spewing out facts.

Facts in the real world aren't arguments for or against something.

$430 million is 21,500 $20,000 cars.

Toyota sold 4,145,000 vehicles worldwide in 6 months.

In April 2006-September 2006, Toyota made $6.7 billion ($777.2 billion yen) net income worldwide.

http://www.toyota.com/about/news/corporate...cialreport.html

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So, how often does a giant corporation need to build a new giant manufacturing plant?

What's the point of $6.7 billion if you don't reinvest it on the business and donate it to charity?

Money comes, money needs to go. Hoarding money throws the world into a financial depression. It is spending that drives the economy.

$430 million meant $430 million was paid to workers across the world to build this giant manufacturing plant.

Oh dear, how long will it take Toyota to make the $430 million back? Oh, less than a month.

But still keep in mind car companies aren't greedy, Toyota's profit margin is only 6.77%. The corporation made $6.7 billion after spending $92.6 billion dollars.

The Bonneville is an almost great car.

If only the interior didn't look like it melted in 150 degree heat.

And it didn't get such terrible reliability ratings.

Good thing modern GM cars are much more reliable than the Bonneville.

the G6... GM has a thing with making unattractive, cheaply textured steering wheels. It's such a prominent object in the cabin, it ruins the car.

I would actually take the G5 Cobalt over the G6.

The Altima is on an all-new D platform. The suspension and rigidity are improved, geometry revised. Can't do that on an existing platform. The car rides differently than the 2002.

Not to say the Altima has a good steering wheel either. I'd prefer a 3-spoke.

The rear end, and tiny wheels makes this vehicle a dud.

Yes, it is styling from the 1990s.

This is the most content-free review I've read.

The author of this article needs much more schooling to write anything respectable.

That scares me that the ony automatic will be the CVT. The replacement cost for these must be astronomical when the 3/36 runs out.

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Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, Nissan are 5/60+ on powertrains.

Nissan's CVTs have been reliable.

A few first year Murano CVTs blew, but even first year Murano CVT reliability was excellent for most people.

Plus, just about every major manufacturer have CVT cars on the market currently. None of them have CVT failure issues.

These artificial intelligence keys are so intelligent, they start themselves.

I thought this was normal behavior.

Soon, we don't have to start our own cars, drive our own cars, cook our own meals, work ourselves, sleep with our own wives, and take care of our own kids.

These intelligent keys are all that and more.

EDIT: Also, the ABS is a $250 stand-alone option on the Sentra 2.0 and $600 with alloy wheels on the 2.0S.

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the 2.0S ABS package requires the convenience package.

So the ABS package comes to $1500.

But It is nice that ABS is available standalone on the 2.0.

why isn't it on other models???

And I just checked, my mistake, sorry. The Ford Focus, Chevy Cobalt and Dodge Caliber charges extra for automatic transmission. So the only advantage domestics have in this class is the included destination fee. But you still can't beat the domestic firesale discounts lol!

Audi? Didn't they have a CVT?

Audi currently uses their CVT, "Multitronic", in all their 2WD models.

Audi's traditional 6-speed automatic "Tiptronic" is for their 4WD models.

It is worth noting that the Audi CVT does deliver its promise of smooth uninterrupted power; The Audi CVT's 0-60 time is faster than Audi's manual transmissions.

Do you live in Canada because aside from the not standard ABS, none of that sounded accurate.

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No, I live in the USA.

Please go to www.nissanusa.com.

The low "base" MSRP is for the rental car "2.0" version, which are not in stock at dealers.

Dealers stock the consumer "2.0S" version.

Furthermore, Nissan does not include automatic/CVT, and destination fee in their "base" MSRPs.

This scheme is true for all Nissan models.

So, the real starting price of a consumer model is

($2.0S manual + $CVT + $destination fee).

$15,650 2.0S + $800 CVT + $615 destination = $17,065 real base price.

Note Ford (including Mazda), GM, Chrysler quote their MSRP's INCLUDING destination fee, and FREE automatic transmission.

Japanese brands charge extra for destination and automatic transmission, on top of the "MSRP".

Please confirm for yourself.

seems to me it looks like  a Saturn ION.

The Saturn Ion could have been a great car if it had a well designed front end, rear end, and interior.

Indeed the roof and side windows of the Sentra look like a Saturn Ion.

I priced a Sentra. base model CVT is $17,000.

What the, I can get a base model Malibu automatic for $14,000...

And you cna only have ABS on the Sentra if you buy one that's $19,000+, because the ABS is bundled into other packages.

Who doesn't have ABS standard these days???

It looks small because it's sleeker than the out-going car.

I thought the 2007 Camry looked small too when I walked up to it.

But it's still the same midsize.

In the same fashion, I thought the Passat looked small.

I'm sure the Altima will look even smaller.

I've seen 2 camrys so far...and they dont even stand out in the crowd...and I HATE tha commercial

I've already seen some 10 2007 Camrys here already... lots of silvers and dark metallic grays, one light pastel green.

I don't like the car, but a lot of people sure do.

thats what you like to hear.  calm, cool, and collected.  thanks for reassuring us that everything will be just fine, mr. spokesperson.

is this just a language barrier thing?

HAHAHAAH Hyundai must have cut corners hiring a spokesman... he was the lowest bid.

I just heard a local large Nissan dealer on the radio with the same 2-for-1 offer, the Sentra "free". "We just received a shipment of Sentras just for this event!"

But at least for Nissan, the aging Sentra is still its second best selling vehicle.

I was taking a shower when I heard an advertisment on the radio that caught my attention.  It said that if you buy a new Raider, you can have a Galant to use, free of charge, for two years.  Straight from their website:

Yikes.

This is not that desperate. The dealer is smart. You're getting tricked, and saving at most $2300.

The Galant lease is $6300.

You MUST pay MSRP on the Raider.

That means, there is -$6300 hypothetically in rebates, etc on the Raider.

But you choose not to take the money, instead you choose to give it straight back to the dealer to lease a Galant, for 2 years, for $6300.

Usually a midsize truck has what, a $4000 incentive? (full size have usually $8000)

So if the "rebate" here is $6300, you're saving at most an extra ($6300 this offer)-($4000 typical rebate) = $2300.

And now you need to find someone to drive your Galant for you.

Interior is very attractive!

and those are nice wheel covers!

The only other nice wheel cover I see around is the Nissan Altima's.

Steel wheels cost $50, and they don't get damaged if you scrape a curb.

They're good for people who don't buy cars for disposable performance, such as something like a BMW 5 series all aluminum one-use disposable car...

Toyota has ungodly amounts of money.  They will fix this problem by throwing a ton of money at it, and by doing something crazy like giving out a billion dollars worth of laptops for people's problems......and they will in the end come out being yet another example of how "Detroit" should be doing business.  There will be no talk of bad product, and bad quality......all the talk will be of how Toyota fixed it (with hush money)!

....and they will continue to do this (millions of dollars of Ipod's for Lexus recalls) until their cash reserves are brought back down into the atmosphere, and they can no longer buy their way out of their problems.  But I don't see that happening anytime soon......unfortunately.

Imagine _you_ are the customer. Don't you want the company to buy you, give you free stuff to compensate, if they screw up?

Rewarding the customer if the company screws up is the good way to do things. Telecommunications, SBC, wireless, cable companies often do this.

Yes this requires a big wad of cash, and only big companies can do this. But some evil big companies don't give the customers free stuff when they screw up; they don't even apologize, and that's bad.

Small companies sometimes have no choice but to deny problems, otherwise they go out of business. We see this in companies like Mitsubishi, cash strapped telecom companies (SBC when they were trying to gain market share denied all), etc. When a company is in hard times and has no cash reserves, they may be forced to deny problems until they have the resources to fix it.

But, this is bad for the company's reputation, and it is bad for the customer. Do you want to be the customer of a small poor company that screws you over? I would rather buy from a big company that admits to its mistakes, and compensates for their failure by giving me something in return.

When I call customer service about something gone wrong, I expect them to apologize for my inconvenience, remedy the problem, AND give me free stuff.

do you think .05% is a plausible no.?

anyone feel free to answer.

i wanted to get a poll going but i have no idea.

With the possibility of selling 500,000 Camrys a year in the US alone (and with all those sales at stake), I think Toyota has good reasons to be genuine about fixing this problem in a customer-friendly manner.

Toyota is giving all the affected owners extended warranty to 7yr/100,000mi, rental car for 3-6 weeks during the repair, and Toyota pays for the monthly payment of the car while the car is being repaired. (Personally, I'd snatch at this deal if it is offered to me for any car!)

Add the price of a new 6-speed transmission/or parts to that, and dealership labor cost, this sounds like some $2500-4000 per vehicle affected. With a price like that, and Toyota's willingness to offer the owner all of the above, I think Toyota is confident the effected number of vehicles are quite limited.

Maybe the third best selling Japanese midsize sedan, but the Impala is the third best selling midsizer in the U.S.

Sorry, I wasn't aware the Impala is only 104 cu. ft. I thought it was a full-sized sedan. My apologies. Make The Altima the 4th best selling mid-sized sedan.

People complain that it's not all new looking enough, but the current car still sells well. Ever heard of 'New Coke'? If something is working, maintain it and change what is necessary. Don't change for the sake of chnage to please those that won't even buy one.

The 2001 to 2002 redesign was definitely an example of a needed radical change. Now, not so fast.

I agree with this. Nissan has no reason to change the exterior. More companies now are adopting the smooth roofline, which the Altima already has on the 2002-2006 model. It is already the 3rd best selling midsized sedan on the market, behind the Camry and the Accord. Nissan only has to address its issues of interior quality, reliability, platform rigidity and agility. All of which Nissan addresses with this new model.

Altima sales are UP this year, with the 2005-2006 new face. Why is there a need to change the exterior if sales are still going up? That means the design is just starting the catch the consumer's attention more.