Congrats Nissan!

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:40 am

For your Mississippi plant has now screwed you for at least 3 years!

http://www.wwl.com//Article.asp?id=185413 wrote:JACKSON, Miss. (AP) It's been open less than three years, but already the Nissan assembly plant in Canton has recorded a dubious achievement.

Four of the five vehicles made there landed at the bottom of the Consumer Reports reliability list.

That wasn't the kind of publicity then-Governor Ronnie Musgrove had in mind in May 2003. That's when the first vehicle rolled off the one-point-four (b) billion dollar plant's assembly line.

What many car buyers are hearing from Consumer Reports, a publication of the nonprofit Consumers Union, is to stay away from four vehicles produced at Canton -- the Armada sport utility, Quest minivan, Titan pickup truck, and Infiniti Q-X-5-6 luxury S-U-V.

Each was rated below average in reliability in a study released late last year.

A spokesman for Consumer Reports is calling it a wake-up call for Nissan.

Nissan says the flaws do NOT affect vehicle safety.

joeyc · Post by **joeyc** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:58 am

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, never heard that before, thanks for posting!! although i know some guys with the titan and they love that truck!!!

ridr4lif · Post by **ridr4lif** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:06 am

Yea i was kinda looking at the Nissan Titan truck until i saw consumer reports say it was one of the worst trucks in terms of reliability.

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:06 pm

I take thier "reports" with a grain of salt and a shot of JD. They are so slanted towards the Aisian cars its hard to believe them.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:20 pm

Keep in mind you're trusting the same magazine that recommends a Bose home theater systems. Consumer Reports is highly biased crap. JD power is MUCH, MUCH more reliable. But like Mark Twain says: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Consumer Reports:

Honda, Toyota: Can't make a mistake, ever
Nissan: Crap ever since Renault bought them out
American cars: Don't exist
European cars: All of them are crap.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:27 pm

Aside from that, most vehicle problems aren't really the fault of an assembly plant (not the personnel, anyway). Unless the reported problems are panel rattling and poor ergonomics

, most of the problems occurring in vehicles today are related to the electronics-which is typically an automated process. The other problem is that everything other than engines aren't built worth a damn anymore, they're built with a "just enough" mentality to improve efficiency.