Honda-Nissan tie-up failure leaves Japanese automakers' future hazy

It's difficult for Japanese companies to merge, and in most cases they shouldnt make the effort. As anyone who has worked for one will tell you, they are extremely rigid with decision-making and organizational structures. The best solution for Nissan is a buyout offer to a foreign company and put the brand to rest. Nissan did a lot better under Renault than it is now!

Ghosn rebuild that company from 1999, it only took 7 years back to where it originally come from.

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It's difficult for Japanese companies to merge, and in most cases they shouldnt make the effort. As anyone who has worked for one will tell you, they are extremely rigid with decision-making and organizational structures

Merge will likely not work, acquisition will.

The future of Nissan is unclear, and Panasonic will dissolve, it looks like declination of manufacturing country Japan.

As Japan's decline accelerates, Japan will, of course, blame everybody else (nobody understands us). Nissan is responsible for any "hazy" future, along with the primitive fit for nothing Japanese legal system and disgusting Nissan management. It is inevitable that Japan's industries will imblode.

Look at all the Ghosn brands, dead or on life support, everywhere, not just Japan. Even Benz has been duped, eg the X-Class truck.

Nissan pioneered BEV, only to let Ghosn run it into the ground. Meanwhile all other Japanese brands are profitable and responding to challenges. Toyota has surpassed VW, avoided most of the dual clutch dramas, AND dieselgate.

Nissan should not have any future. Nissan is the company which put its own foreign leader under bus, got him arrested. This company has no corporate governance. Nissan would not have been existing today if that leader was not there at that time.

The best solution for Nissan is a buyout offer to a foreign company and put the brand to rest

Easier said than done. The Chinese (and they would do it via HK, or Taiwan) desperately want Jatco, the missing ingredient for good drivetrain, and why Chinese cars (especially EVs) are so unrefined.

They tried to get Nidec to acquire it too. But Jatco partners know it will be to the detriment of Japanese Autos. Loosing TDK (which turned into CATL) has truly taught Japan inc a lesson.

Foxconn will be lurching for a long time. Nissan should be more cooperative with Honda imo.

Nissan would not have been existing today if that leader was not there at that time.

LOL, Ghosn wasn't a line assembler, he was CEO, his decisions spans decades, a single new model capex horizon is 8 years or more. What Ghosn did was the final nail in coffin for Nissan, and Renault.

Nissan, do you miss Ghosn already? Now you pay the price with interest.

Nissan should not have any future. Nissan is the company which put its own foreign leader under bus, got him arrested. This company has no corporate governance. Nissan would not have been existing today if that leader was not there at that time.

Agree 100%

I think that Honda has just dodged a bullet.

Nothing is easier than 'to stay competitive against global electric vehicle makers'. They've all had very successful and reliable cars in their past. So, it only lacks the will to become competitive again. Probably, those wokies can't be helped anymore in their total stubbornness.

Carlos Ghosn snickering somewhere comfortable. NGL, if Nissan goes down, I'm popping champagne. Time to go buy a Honda.....in the city of Yokohama......and do doughnuts in front of Nissan's HQ. Jeje

Is it really that difficult for Japanese companies to merge? We are urged to understand and cooperate every day. But there you go, Japan’s auto industry is now going through what the UK’s did in the seventies and eighties.

Carlos Ghosn snickering somewhere comfortable. NGL, if Nissan goes down, I'm popping champagne. Time to go buy a Honda.....in the city of Yokohama......and do doughnuts in front of Nissan's HQ. Jeje

Well said!

An unpopular idea I know... but most probalby right.

Don't know why you keep cheering to Ghosn... the guy leaded Nissan for 20 years... that means he is responsible for every bad thing NIssan has and/or Ghosn did nothing or had no real power to change those bad practices of NIssan.

Either way, this only supports that Ghosn was not a good leader or at least he was not managing Nissan as he should have.

Ghosn took Nissan from the brink of bankruptcy and revived it to its former glory.

Now, Nissan is back in bankruptcy.

I wonder why that is.

M&A, Is totally dependent on the major share (security owners), and on their belief in the C.E.O?

No comment on Ghosty. he attempted to change Nissan grass roots during the oil crisis, refused to accept that the grass had grown again. 280hp agreement when. NSX 240 280 400, he missed par on every course he did not appear on.