Nissan's been making minimum cost models for awhile*, that are just reliable enough to stay rolling.

Ergo, if you want the cheapest car you can get, it'll probably be a Nissan.

* Before the late-10s Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi insanity

Oh I know. Carlos Ghosn got them to focus more on the fleet market. I'll always be a Toyota/Lexus man, but I owned a Datsun wagon for a while and I followed the industry closely when I ran an import repair shop (which was never open on a Saturday or Sunday).

It's wild how that one man managed to change the entire path of a once great brand.

I think of it as one too many levels of management. At some point, your nearest understanding of the business is powerpoints about powerpoints about powerpoints... and then dumb ideas start to seem reasonable.

>For some reason, it's always a Nissan.

If you have a pulse and a recent paystub, you can get financing from Nissan.