The Altima is being retired in 2025. What will be it's replacement in affordable sedans?

https://www.thedrive.com/news/nissan-altima-will-speed-into-the-sunset-in-2025-report

Mostly posting to share this relevant meme

Why does anyone buy an Altima instead of a Camry or Accord? I think this board determined that Nissan is the Japanese Chrysler a long time ago.

cadetjay02 said:

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Why does anyone buy an Altima instead of a Camry or Accord? I think this board determined that Nissan is the Japanese Chrysler a long time ago.

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I just looked - appears to be $1k-$3K cheaper for base model Nissan. I would have guessed $5k less.

Where will people put their paper plates now?

I loved my 2000 Maxima and 2005 Xterra. Both great cars with zero major issues.

It seems Nissan went cheap sometime after.

mm98 said:

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I loved my 2000 Maxima and 2005 Xterra. Both great cars with zero major issues.

It seems Nissan went cheap sometime after.

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It's the Nissan-Renault alliance. Renault got Nissan out of a financial bind while turning their cars into POS.

We had a '93 Altima and '94 Sentra. Drove the Sentra for about 100k trouble free miles and then passed it on to a family member where it was driven for quite a while after that. The Altima was a great car for a long time until an 18-wheeler cut a corner too sharply and caved-in my rear quarter panel with the back tires of his trailer. You know how you sometimes drive over a curb if you cut a corner too tight? My Altima was the curb. We then went on to own two Infinitis (Nissan products) and loved those as well. When I bought my '97 maroon I-30 it was my baby. That was all pre-Renault, so I can't speak to their reliability since.

Now we're starting with Nissan again after a roughly 25 year gap with a '23 Titan.

cadetjay02 said:

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Why does anyone buy an Altima instead of a Camry or Accord? I think this board determined that Nissan is the Japanese Chrysler a long time ago.

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Credit scores.

Bingo. Also, Altimas sell for below MSRP. Accords and Camrys are often above, so the gap is larger than it appears.

BenTheGoodAg said:

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Where will people put their paper plates now?

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Early 2000s Silverados/Tahoes

I think it was the Altima that had the Nissan logo on the trunk that had to be rotated to access the trunk's key hole. It seemed that 99% of the cars on the road had it rotated up.

CVT?

Hard pass for me, any year.

Complete Idiot said:

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cadetjay02 said:

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Why does anyone buy an Altima instead of a Camry or Accord? I think this board determined that Nissan is the Japanese Chrysler a long time ago.

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I just looked - appears to be $1k-$3K cheaper for base model Nissan. I would have guessed $5k less.

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Gap gets wider with every year of service. They're rental fleet staples.

mm98 said:

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I loved my 2000 Maxima and 2005 Xterra. Both great cars with zero major issues.

It seems Nissan went cheap sometime after.

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The G35 in the early 2000s were a massive success for Nissan.

Trucks are the one bright spot in the Nissan lineup. Renault didn't do light trucks until they rebadged the Navara, so Nissan trucks didn't get corrupted like the passenger cars and SUVs did.

Edit to clarify that Renault didn't have equivalents to the Nissan trucks. They did have a pickup version of one of their crappy unibody SUVs and I think a small chassis-cab commercial truck version of one of their vans, but nothing that would cross over to the Frontier/Navara or Titan (or Armada for that matter).

Frontier was always a great value. Perfect compact truck with a bulletproof 4.0 and 5spd auto you could still service yourself.