Honda and Nissan to Merge?

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Press reports and company statements say Nissan and Honda are in preliminary merger discussions. Mitsubishi may be part of the plan as well. Stated reason seems to be centralizing resources to produce EVs. I guess Hyundai and Kia, while sister companies, seem to maintain their separate identities, but not quite sure how this works with Honda and Nissan. Honda seems to enjoy much higher quality and owner satisfaction ratings and both compete in the same market segments. Nissan desperately needs a partner, but…?
 
Can anyone provide recent evidence of a successful automative merger that made both brand partners stronger without the weaker partner being a resource or financial distraction?
Not sure if this qualifies or not, but Opel / Vauxhall is making money now under PSA / Stellantis. Never made money in recency under GM.

Also Ferrari making more profits as stand-alone company. I know they don't qualify as mass market, but that is something this day in age.
 
I'm sure they are smarter than me,

Being "spreadsheet smart" is not the same as being "real world smart".

Something that I'll make sure to burn into the brains of my kids once they get old enough to understand....as I've seen both worlds.

example: a professional lumberjack/arborist is one of the best practioners of applied physics around (even if they hated school), lol.
 
Can anyone provide recent evidence of a successful automative merger that made both brand partners stronger without the weaker partner being a resource or financial distraction?

Well, so far, the Toyota + Subaru and the Toyota + Mazda joint ventures have been doing quite well for everyone involved.
Granted, they aren't complete mergers, but Toyota owns enough of Subaru and Mazda both to make things worthwhile for everyone.
 
Not a good sample size, yesterday I drove on a highway outside of Tokyo for two hours.

Only non-Japanese car I saw was a Bentley- that was it.

90 percent of the vehicles were Toyota, six percent Honda, two percent Nissan, and two percent other.

My observation was Toyota is monster big, Honda is a tiny, Nissan even smaller in Japan.

Unscientific observation.....
 
Well, so far, the Toyota + Subaru and the Toyota + Mazda joint ventures have been doing quite well for everyone involved.
Granted, they aren't complete mergers, but Toyota owns enough of Subaru and Mazda both to make things worthwhile for everyone.
Co-habitation and a marriage are different. Just joking.
 
Not a good sample size, yesterday I drove on a highway outside of Tokyo for two hours.

Only non-Japanese car I saw was a Bentley- that was it.

90 percent of the vehicles were Toyota, six percent Honda, two percent Nissan, and two percent other.

My observation was Toyota is monster big, Honda is a tiny, Nissan even smaller in Japan.

Unscientific observation.....
Hey GON at risk of hijacking this thread we need to see some pics of the meals you are having over there.
 
For the past two weeks have had severe dysteria- I suspect a food born pathogen caught in another country, so I essentially have not been eating.....
Honda ought to absorb Suzuki and sell their Swift and Jimny here. If you have Montezuma's Revenge find some of this, worked for me in Mexico.

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