2011 Nissan Titan with be a Dodge rebadge
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Nissan's involvement with Dodge's truck business could be much more than this latest agreement by the time 2011 rolls around. Cerebus isn't in the buy-and-hold business, if you catch my drift, and it wasn't long ago that Nissan was looking to crawl in bed with a North American manufacturer.
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I knew a Nissan design/engineered Titan didn't have much of a chance for a second generation with the way sales of the current truck are going. They are only selling about 1/3 of what they originally planned.
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The Titan is a bad@$$ truck. I sold mine last year. One of the most enjoyable vehicles I ever owned. My son still misses it. I wonder if this means the end of the endurance engine? I hate to say this since it means buisness for an american company and I love Dodge............but it makes me kind of sad to see it go.
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Nissan's involvement with Dodge's truck business could be much more than this latest agreement by the time 2011 rolls around. Cerebus isn't in the buy-and-hold business, if you catch my drift, and it wasn't long ago that Nissan was looking to crawl in bed with a North American manufacturer.
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Nissan's involvement with Dodge's truck business could be much more than this latest agreement by the time 2011 rolls around. Cerebus isn't in the buy-and-hold business, if you catch my drift, and it wasn't long ago that Nissan was looking to crawl in bed with a North American manufacturer.
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I have to agree. I'm just afraid that Cerebus is just testing the waters for a spin off of the Jeep or Dodge truck line and then merge the rest of Chrysler into another company. I suppose a Chrysler-Nissan deal as a true merger of equals would be a better than Chrysler being broken up and sold as pieces for best profit to Cerebus.
The world may be getting towards the point that we have too many car companies, and as a result, I'd expect a lot of M&A activity in the upcoming years.