Nissan’s profit zoomed up more than 10-fold in July-September from a year earlier, boosted by a weak Japanese yen and strong vehicle sales around the world. The Japanese automaker, allied with Renault SA of France, reported a 190.7 billion yen ($1.3 billion) profit in the last quarter, up from 17.4 billion yen the year before. Quarterly sales surged 25% to 3.15 trillion yen ($20.9 billion), the company said Thursday.
We rented one for a trip from Tennessee to Cincinnati and loved it. It was very comfortable, responsive steering, and great on gas (We averaged 45 MPG round trip!).
We would have considered buying one but the CVT horror stories made me nervous; from what I’ve read though the latest Sentra has a revised CVT that’s supposed to be less problematic.