Nissan makes trash that can drive around for a little bit first, that's what this is.
CVTs are kind of crappy to begin with but Nissan CVTs are by far the worst.
I have heard however that their newer leaf is pretty good.
I do remember renting a Dodge Caliber year back when the CVT performed terribly going up hills as automatic but it wasn't bad at all if you used the paddle shifters. I did read reviews of people who bought the things, drove 20,000 miles and complained bitterly about performance and never figured out about the paddle shifters though.
How did it happen twice?
Also, we bought a minivan in 2003, put 250,000 miles on it with no major repairs, got in an accident that totaled it, replaced it with a new version of the same model, have nearly 100,000 problem-free miles on it, and would buy the same model again if something happened to this one. Some people genuinely like their vehicles. I'd guess that most people do.
No matter what brand they would have driven, they would have had something to complain about.
This is basically what I'm saying. Though, I'm not necessarily saying misuse happens. Cars are complex, things break - even on the "best" car brands.
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Right now, I have a poor opinion of GM exhaust systems and catalytic converters. I've had them go out "prematurely" on two vehicles that I've owned for extended periods of time. However, there's absolutely no indication any other vehicle would have done better in the same situation. It just happens that these are the two vehicles I owned long enough and drove enough for the exhaust system to go out.
There are a lot of cars that will easily go 250k miles, in the same way your car does. However, your opinion of other car brands doesn't go up based on your positive experience with this car. Other car brands might actually be more reliable, but you can't form that opinion since you don't drive _other car brand_ (since most people have 1, maybe 2, cars for a long time, it's likely you aren't simultaneously experience many other car brands).
The same thing happens, in reverse. People rip on X, Y, or Z car brand for being unreliable without evaluating against the broader market. They drive X, something broke on X, so X sucks. Doesn't matter if A, B, and C brands use the exact same part from the exact same supplier, the negative opinion only applies to the brand that actively broke on the user.
My Chevys have been unbelievably reliable, more so than my Toyotas, and the stats bear that out.
The real issue to me with American cars, going forward, is that I cannot rely on the company to exist at any point in the future. Strikes that reduce parts and labor while making unaffordable pension demands are going to keep me away from unioned brands. And I am currently in the market for a new vehicle.
Can you post these stats? My Googling (e.g. https://www.carmax.com/articles/most-reliable-car-brands) shows that except for Tesla, non-US manufacturers sit in the top 10.
A lot of people cite CR, but their methodology is flawed. They count a confusing volume button equal to a blown transmission, and they only survey their userbase. I fundamentally do not trust a list that ranks BMW well.
My favorite is honestly "What makes it to 200k?" https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/g35834918/top-vehicles-mos...
That's a bunch of GM and Toyota trucks, plus a few Toyota cars. That matches what I see every day.
Seems like it answers the question people actually care about, instead of how well the bluetooth works according to Granny.
Some people in America refuse to buy American cars because historically they have been less reliable and lower quality than some foreign brands.
Never owned a CVT but from what I understand they basically trade off fuel consumption for a bit of longevity?
Since owning a Peugeot in the late 90s/early 00s I have sworn off buying french cars. It required several clutches, brake calipers, a gearbox, wheel bearings, exhausts rotted like fresh fruit ... you name it - over the course of perhaps 4 or 5 years it needed to be replaced (potentially multiple times). Least reliable car I've ever had.
The thing that finally killed it was when pulling out across a busy road, the universal joint connecting one of the driven wheels to the drive shaft shattered, the drive shaft slipped out and got wedged between the inner wheel and the brakes and seized the wheel, and then it dumped a load of gearbox oil all over the road. As one of the wheels was now jammed solid it couldn't even be pushed out of the road and blocked traffic for an hour or so while we waited for it to be towed out of the way.
I have had non-Nissan Japanese cars (Honda, Toyota, Mazda) since then and they have been flawless without needing anything done apart from standard servicing.
Nissan are - in my eyes - french now.
What do you mean by this? My two cars both have CVTs and they have been great (not Nissan though). Together, they have about 500,000km on them
I doubt that's what you meant to write.
Nissan, however, is famous for making garbage CVTs that have lots of issues at low mileages.
Also, I think this is one of those things where CVTs came out, there were a bunch of problems that popped up in the first 3-5 years with different manufacturers, and now those problems are largely fixed but it left people feeling apprehensive around it. Honestly, I think this CVT ICE car is going to be my last gas car anyway. It'll probably last me another 5 years easily and by then there will be even more options for cheaper EVs in the US.
CVTs, at least from Nissan are a black box. You can change the fluid, you can hook it up to a computer, but that's about it. There's no fixing them. When it's done you have to replace the entire transmission. I limped the car another 50 miles to a dealer and traded it in for a Chevy Cruze. I looked it up, and I was the only year model not to have a class action yet. Later there was, and I think they settled for a 500 dollar voucher towards a new Nissan. No thanks.