Japanese automakers Honda and Nissan have announced plans to join forces and form the world’s third-largest automaker by sales as the industry undergoes dramatic changes in its transition away from fossil fuels.

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    If they expanded their lineup to be based on the Leaf EV instead of just leaving it a lil econobox and focusing on their god aweful CVT they may have had been a great early EV competitor. Instead, ownership just kept sucking and sucking the company dry

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      Ya, they really fucked things up. They were so well positioned with their early start if they’d done things better and didn’t rest on it.

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        What sucks is that the leaf was a fairly sensible econobox and it was one of the most affordable EVs you could get. All they had to do was build on that!