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In countries like INDIA, the site takes about more than ten minutes to load on an average indian internet connection.

I guess if you include dialup connections in the average? The page load seemed pretty much instantaneous to me on a standard 2Mbps Tata Indicom connection. At worst, I believe the average broadband connection these days would be 512 Kbps, and "more than ten minutes" is still too much of a stretch.

Edit: Akamai reports that the average Internet speed in India is 0.9 Mbps: http://www.businesswireindia.com/PressRelease.asp?b2mid=3042....

512 here, ten minutes just about fits the bill. I have been reading all these comments but have no idea what it is because it wont load for me at all. i cant load 30 mb. It's bsnl and it wont even give complete 512. more like 400.

Most of the indians use the traditional BSNL broadband.. of course my smartphone witha airtel 3g , docomo 3g it loads good.. but when i am on my PC,, with that BSNL, things are not so fine my friend..

Of course the goal of this website is to sell cars to Indians out of Japan, so really fail on Nissan's part

That's exactly the point. It's an advertisement page, targeted to a specific demographic target that have access to a fast network connection. It's not something that should be always reliable and usable.

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